Gabriele SveltoI'm old enough to remember when "sunset" and "pivot" where nouns, not verbs. I have the feeling that outside of corporate speech they still are.
shom@gabrielesvelto pivot has been a verb for the fans of the TV show F. R. I. E. N. D. S for a couple decades now.
@gabrielesvelto hahaha sorry it was tongue-in-cheek comment referring to this scene
Shae Erisson
stammi@shapr @gabrielesvelto We could already be solutioning.
Rob 🖖@gabrielesvelto I can't figure how to use "sunset" as a verb
Sven Marnach@omo_salvadego @gabrielesvelto You can use Kagi's translation service to translate that to English: https://translate.kagi.com/?from=linkedin&to=en&text=Sunsetting
@smarnach @omo_salvadego "LinkedIn speak" 🤣
@omo_salvadego it's been used to mean "shutting down a project". I've heard it used that way for the first time some 10 years ago when Firefox OS was shut down and it seems to have caught on.
@gabrielesvelto fwiw both were borrowed into corporate speak from other contexts. Pivot came from sports (basketball I think though maybe others) and sunset came from politics where some laws had built in expiry dates.
Mormegil@gabrielesvelto
Not even "where" used to be a verb :-p (see also: Muphry's law)
Not even "where" used to be a verb :-p (see also: Muphry's law)
@mormegil this is a notorious Mastodon bug, my posts are perfect then somehow I click "submit" and they come out full of typos and spelling horrors