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We don't like euphemisms, bowdlerisms, or corpspeak either, and consider them loosely included under the word "misleading" in: "Please use the original title,
by dang 1y ago
We don't like euphemisms, bowdlerisms, or corpspeak either, and consider them loosely included under the word "misleading" in:
"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
I've made the title say 'used' instead of 'pre-owned' now.
- apparent 1y agoSorry, I just literally copied the title, which I didn't find to be misleading. Can you help me understand what is misleading about "pre-owned"? Isn't that just a well-known synonym for "used"? If submitters are supposed to change the wording wherever marketing corpspeak exists, there will be a lot more changed titles, and perhaps not always for the better.
- dang 1y agoOh I agree. This is a fine-grained nuance and what you submitted was just fine. I didn't mean to imply otherwise and am sorry if it came across that way! Sometimes it's only when the commenters start reacting to a title that we even find out that there's an issue.