# In love with my manager.... he knows it... and i need tips to move on ??

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-love-with-my-manager-he-knows-it-and-i-need-tips-to-move-on/700173
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 2, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-love-with-my-manager-he-knows-it-and-i-need-tips-to-move-on/700173 "2014-10-02T11:55:11Z")
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### Author: ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-love-with-my-manager-he-knows-it-and-i-need-tips-to-move-on/700173/74 "2014-10-04T05:29:49Z")

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> [@Onomatopoeia](#):
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> A message board, even this one, is not a professional environment. Also, on boards that are multilingual and where English is used solely for convenience, such as Filipino and, I presume, Indian boards, slang and other word corruption is not only used it is predominant. As somewhat of a prescriptivist, I may not like it, but I can’t deny what’s in front of me.

This isn’t a multilingual board. The rules state you must post in English and imply that your post must be understandable for the benefit of the mods. The bastardization that is the OP might be considered English by some, but only Barbara Billingsley might have been able to speak it.

> [@DChord568](#):
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> A message board is a communication environment. If you write something that is virtually incomprehensible to the vast majority of participants (or that takes extraordinary time and effort to comprehend), you have failed to communicate — and no amount of bending over backwards to be politically correct can justify it.

> [@bldysabba](#):
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> If the OP caused you anything more than minimal puzzlement, I suggest visiting a neurologist.

This is the Straight Dope, not Lumosity. I have never seen a mess like the one in the OP. I would be very surprised if the vast majority of the people in this thread could understand it with ease and were only mildly puzzled by it. I’m with **DChord**. If you have to bend so far backward to justify it that you can poke your head between your legs from behind, it’s not worth the effort. Political correctness be damned. People should consider their readership and make an effort to be understandable. There are many people from other countries with a less-than-perfect understanding of English, but at least they apply themselves to be comprehensible.

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