'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail After a News Report

Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by duskwuff on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:10PM (#33168614)

I'd add that "link me up" isn't a standard idiom in American English -- a US speaker would probably say "send me the link" or "link me to it".

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by soulofmischief on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:46PM (#33169020)

I believe proper American parlance is "I'mma need the link".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBEpjOwbpM

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by feet on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:46PM (#33184735)

Where the link at

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by prvit on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:51PM (#33169082)

Pretty sure that’s a common expression (in American English too) referring not to URLs but making contact with people.

“Why didn’t anyone bother to put me in touch” is how I’d interpret it.

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by duskwuff on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:11PM (#33169311)

While "to link up" is an idiom in American English, "to link <someone> up" is not. The phrase is intransitive -- even if the referent were a person, one would usually say "to link up with <someone>". Moreover, the phrase implies a casual social encounter, which wouldn't be appropriate here; a more formal introduction would be implied by a phrase like "get me in touch".

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Re:'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail Af... by MisterSandman on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:13AM (#33175289)

I'd point out that "link me up" isn't a phrase used in Indian English either, so the person who fakes this wasn't really trying hard.

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