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Re:Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week
on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:51PM (#15470620)
The word “layoff” appears nowhere in this report. The words used are “fired” “dismissals” and “firing”. This is a completely different activity than laying off.
Re:African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mi...
on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:27PM (#15460084)
David Foster Wallace wrote about the relationship between Standard Written English and social power structures in America. See "Authority and American Usage" or its reprint in Harper's, "Tense Present".