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LOL, I assume the title is irony, or perhaps a riff on sassy (a word derived from sarcastic), because the author correctly says "Good managers write well" throu
by jacknews 4y ago
LOL, I assume the title is irony, or perhaps a riff on sassy (a word derived from sarcastic), because the author correctly says "Good managers write well" throughout the rest of the text.
- m348e912 4y agoYup I think the author was taking a little poetic license there. I thought he made some good points but I don't think it's universal. Sometimes good managers are good because they have empathy, good temperament, care about the team, and work hard to enable his/her employees. There are benefits to being able to write well and it helps with certain aspects of management, however there are a wide range of elements that makes someone an exceptional people leader.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 4y agoIt would be a contradiction for managers to have high empathy but to be unable to write well because the ability to write well is a necessary consequence of having high empathy, i.e. a sensitivity to how others’ comprehension might (or might not) work.
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- alexfromapex 4y agoGlad I wasn’t the only one questioning this, it has to be intentional
- BLKNSLVR 4y ago"Well Managers write good" may have been a better play on words, but far less likely to reach a wider audience.
- atesti 4y agoNon Native speaker here: Has there been a recent change regarding good/well? e.g. in youtube videos about construction I hear it all the time: "works good", "runs good". Is it cool now to make this mistake?
- DoreenMichele 4y agoNo. It's always acceptable, though, to play with words, be ironic, make in jokes, etc.
- Mordisquitos 4y agoIt may be related to a contrast between American English an British English. American English speakers will often use adjectives in place of adverbs when speaking colloquially, e.g. "That tastes real nice" instead of "That tastes really nice". The same is the case with "good" and "well". This does not usually happen in British English, other than by modern American cultural influence.
- ahartmetz 4y agoWhat about "good paying job"? I have seen that several times now, is it some kind of fixed expression?
- cudgy 4y agoGood modifies the noun job, so it is correctly used as an adjective in this case.
- jacknews 4y agoIf it's 'a good-paying job', a job that pays a lot, but might not be good, it is wrong, it should be 'a well-paid job'. If it's 'a good, paying, job', as in a good job, one that pays, it's correct. Sometimes grammar is the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.
- jacknews 4y agoI don't know if it's cool or not, but it is ungrammatical (LOL); 'good' is an adjective, 'well' is the adverb. And also a state of health. I'm always tempted, when someone answers my "How are you?" with "I'm good", to ask what it is they're good at, or if it's because they go to church every day, help old ladies across the road, etc.
- sundvor 4y agoI thought that was the clickbait, to be honest. It worked well to reel me in, at least. :)
- Gordonjcp 4y agoWriting it as "write good" when we know that's not proper English is a clever literary device known as a "joke". Also, that's not what irony means.
- jacknews 4y agoThe message is contradicted by it's form. I think that counts as irony, perhaps with a tinge of sarcasm. Intentional, to make a joke, yes.