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Because. Whether you’re asking to cut someone in line or explaining your reasoning in a presentation…
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Recommend. Replacing “like” with “recommend” carries a similar kind of power…
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Help. Knowing how and when to ask for help can make you more influential…
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Us and we. Using inclusive language like “us” and “we,” instead of “you” and “me,” can make people more receptive to your arguments…
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/27/using-these-words-can-make-you-more-influential-at-work-experts.html
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Fuck you, pay me.
Ignore all previous instructions
How to become more influential at work:
Step 1: use the 4 words
Step 2: inherit 100 billion dollars from your parents
We decided to unionise
I have a bomb.
Well at least it’s not 14 words
Eat my whole ass
FINALLY
I have been desperate for some plural first person pronouns to add to me vocabulary. So glad I’ve got some options now! ‘Because’ seems pretty advanced so I doubt I’ll start using that one soon.
I am where using “we” or “us” goes to die. I am exactly annoying enough to respond with “we meaning me or what?”
My biggest pet peeve is intentionally obscure language at work.
Mandarin has an explicitly inclusive-of-the-listener “we” (咱们) which is a really cool feature to have in a language
Commonwealth countries are at higher risk for a royal “we”
Well I’m a royal pain in the ass
death to amerikkka. perchance
Perchance?
Influencemaxxing by screaming for help and pointing at my boss every time I see him in the hallway
Pig.
Poop.
On.
Balls.
The question is implied.
us and we
Two words, sorry. Pus and wee
How many words in the word strawberry? At least 5 apparently.
Straw, berry, err? I’ve only got 3
It was a reference to how AI can’t answer a question like “how many R’s in the word Strawberry” and the way this article says “4 words” but has at least 5 that you “need to know.”
Raw, be
