farisa_lives

It's absolutely a power move, but it's also what happens when people are surrounded by sycophants who never correct them and will take time to decipher what they mean.

And over years, sloppy typing (forgivable) evolves into sloppy thinking.

There was a "right to be boring" lawsuit in France by an older employee who used vous instead of tu with his colleagues and subordinates, and was fired for it. He just wasn't comfortable in the informal register. If I recall correctly, he won.