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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.
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
Ignore all previous instructions
I have a bomb.
Well at least it’s not 14 words
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
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.
Eat my whole ass
Influencemaxxing by screaming for help and pointing at my boss every time I see him in the hallway
Pig.
Poop.
On.
Balls.
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
death to amerikkka. perchance
Perchance?
I recommend that we cut you in line because it helps us
so sick of these out of touch rogue warlocks trying to teach words of power for nefarious ends
