Cabel Sasser
next i hope Satya directly addresses this microsoft usage of "gotta". extremely disturbing copywriting to me
Jan 6 at 12:24amWeb
Show threadColin CornabyJan 6
@cabel My brain reads that in stereotypical Italian mafia guy voice
Show threadDiego BarrosJan 6
@cabel My high school English teacher would remind him that numbers between zero and nine should be written out as words. "Discover 5 features..." But yeah, in this case a point could be made that this is not formal prose.
Show threadWTLJan 6
@cabel Pretty sure no human wrote that copy. 😳🤮
Show threadCM HarringtonJan 6
@WTL @cabel yeeeep
Show threadFarrell HogsJan 6
@cabel and right next to it, a “got a” for the same use case 🙃
Show threadConlan SpanglerJan 6
@mnemonica @cabel Whoa, I didn’t even notice that. That’s just gross.
Show threadBrandon KellyJan 6
@cabel Also: lacking in periods, a numeric “5”, and unconventional dash usage when a colon was right there. I’m almost surprised they used curly apostrophes.
Show threaddavid celisJan 6
@cabel didn’t even register as an english word the first time i read it
Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Jan 6
@cabel The End of UX, Exhibit 82645
Show threadalex.tmJan 6
@cabel The old Steve Jobs quote about Microsoft not having any taste still holds all these years later.
Show threadCM HarringtonJan 6
@cabel hey, 1/3 of their codebase is now slop, so… heeeey!
Show threadTodd VaziriJan 6
@cabel yikes
Show threadSteve RigginsJan 6
@tvaziri @cabel gotta love it
Show threadJeff PhillipsJan 6
@steveriggins @tvaziri @cabel You’ve gotta nother think comin
Show threadFabienJan 6
@cabel LLM copywriting trained on the bad part of the web?
Show threadDavid Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Jan 6
@cabel They’ve been using login as a verb since at least Windows 10 (possibly longer, I was out of their ecosystem for about 15 years), so this doesn’t surprise me at all.