• The Center Square: Federal employees reportedly told to remove pronouns from email signatures.
  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    This is just begging for malicious compliance.

    You want to eliminate an entire part of speech? Then good luck trying to understand what the fuck my email is trying to say.

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      18 hours ago

      Does the reader want to eliminate an entire part of speech? Then good luck trying to understand what the fuck the writer’s email is trying to say.

      Could be fun. I bet ChatGPT could automate it.

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        1 hour ago

        Exactly… Maybe have a boilerplate disclaimer at the top of each email that does include pronouns, just explaining that the following email has had all pronouns removed so as to comply with the new rule.