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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

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Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

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Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish · 1 day ago

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Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by Friday afternoon, according to internal memos obtained by ABC News.

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waste our time with pronouns?

What does this even mean?

Why use pronoun when no pronoun do trick?

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