When you're immersed in corpspeak constantly it takes a conscious effort to realize when you're in a non-corpspeak context.

Indeed one of the things that has always baffled me in my eight years at Google is the culture of bottomless "Congrats!" reply-all emails that come out at promotions, product launches, etc. And here we see one on HN :-)

badge plz

Well Done! Excellent execution.

It just looks like a congratulations to me to be honest, but perhaps that has to do with the fact that German is my native language.

Would you mind explaining what you mean by ‘corpspeak’ with that person’s comment? I wouldn’t be surprised if I wrote something like that in a similar tone.

I'm guessing the "Other Bets" phrase