| ▲ | seanclayton 8 hours ago |
| It's as insulting as M$ is |
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| ▲ | JasonADrury 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Has there ever been a single good piece of writing that uses "M$" or the likes? "M$" may not be insulting in itself, but it's certainly typically associated with insultingly poor writing. |
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| ▲ | BigTTYGothGF 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | > Has there ever been a single good piece of writing that uses "M$" or the likes? There has not. |
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| ▲ | cinntaile 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How is M$ insulting? It just looks like a leetspeak version of MS. |
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| ▲ | riffraff 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It is supposed to indicate Microsoft cares only about money, which to me too, seems in the same league as microslop, i.e. mildly insulting but really not rude enough to be worth censoring. | |
| ▲ | matsemann 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And other insults are just words as well. It's the intention, history, connotation etc. behind words that give them meaning. M$ is meant as an insult, hence it's insulting. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/M$ | | | |
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