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>I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin. "plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling" Huh?
by tacon 5y ago
>I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong ambition of having a title in Latin.
"plastic, formulaic, always-be-selling"
Huh?
- jb1991 5y ago"..which fulfills my lifelong ambition of..." OP is probably referring to this tired, cliched turn of phrase (among other examples in the blog).
- madeofpalk 5y agoI read this as a tongue in cheek joke?
- abzug 5y agoI read as dumb. It doesn't give any value to the piece, very akin to virtue signaling.
- meowface 5y agoI don't really think it's virtue signaling. "Virtue signaling" is itself an extremely tired cliche/accusation. To me it feels more like stock "relatability signaling", which gives me a similarly unctuous feeling. Kind of the nerd-corporatespeak version of "hello, fellow kids".
- jb1991 5y agoThat’s right, it is tongue-in-cheek, and a stereotypical way of doing so.
- junon 5y agoA lighthearted phrase, at worst. Are we not allowed to express ourselves except for the dryest, most information-dense prose?
- b3morales 5y agoWhile I think the complaint above is a little over the top, the sentence you quote is a solitary fleck of personality in a sea of boilerplate.