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Vicinity9635 on Nov 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their t...

Is there a point in time that we can locate when we stopped calling them "requests" and started calling them "asks" even though it's grammatically incorrect?

Propagating* incorrectness because someone with power did it first is surely a symptom of something negative. Is there a name for it?

sib on Nov 13, 2023 [–]

>> Propaganding incorrectness because someone with power did it first is surely a symptom of something negative. Is there a name for it?

Did you mean "propagating"? (Only asking because your comment was about incorrectness...)

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