Robert KingettWho the fuck taught people how to pen business emails? Holy Christ on a cracker! Absolutely nothing creams my corn more than having to actively translate what these professional suits are typing to me. I just received an email that was 5 paragraphs that essentially boiled down to, hey, I really liked your report you sent last Monday. Can we schedule a Zoom call tomorrow? Yes or no? I am so tired of professional communications. I am frankly exhausted with having to translate professional sludge. Why in the healthiest of hell is it OK, even desirable, that our society likes this kind of mind nummingcommunication? Everybody calls it professional but I just call it a gigantic fucking headache. And who the hell came up with professionalism anyhow? I’m really starting to hate the concept of professionalism and professional writing styles. No wonder everyone has meetings. No one can write. No one can string together a competent business sentence without 90,000 corporate qualifiers. You can have perfect grammar and perfect spelling and in fact be the worst writer. Can we change what it means to write professionally? Because this is a level of hell that I never noticed prior to getting away from corporate offices. #Writing #Business
Sin Vega@WeirdWriter this is exactly the kind of shit that has me so unsurprised that so many people embrace the hollow garbage the regurgitation bots spew out. They've already been talking like that for years! They think that's what communicating is!
@sinvega Even in my younger liberal days, I never communicated like this. I guess my writing skill just kind of automatically shielded me from this kind of communication drudgery. Even when I worked as a PR intern, I never communicated like this. Ever
@WeirdWriter Oh I believe you, and me neither. But a lot of people in some places do and just... don't see how absurd and awful it is.
small consolation was when I was the only person at one place who didn't, and rapidly became the most treasured admin person for like 13 departments, because I answered questions and explained things honestly.
i mean, sure, I may send absurdly long emails even today, but at least they SAY a lot instead of just piling up meat in the rough shape of a person
@sinvega But That right there! You hit the nail on the head! I don’t mind long emails. I actually love it when someone sends me a lengthy novel comprised of information, thoughts and feelings, action plans, and more. I can’t describe what corporate types right like other than slob. It’s just qualifier words with no connection to the prior word. It’s aggressively noticeable the more you talk to folks like you and I
@WeirdWriter Several years back, I drank from the cursed chalice of working with other writers. Every email I've sent since has included swearing, jokes, naked candour, specific well wishes, legally actionable threats against various ministers, etc
It's made me basically unemployable. I'm not going back
FediThing 
There's a good essay by George Orwell called "Politics and the English language" making the case against over-elaborate language.
There's a phrase on the Wikipedia page about the essay which sums it up as "Writers find it easier to gum together long strings of words than to pick words specifically for their meaning."
This is eerily prescient of LLMs in predicting people's motivations and willingness to abandon thought.
The wikipedia page for the essay is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
