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I used to think 'touch grass' was just a dumb insult until I saw it used in a work email.
For years I thought it was just gamer slang to tell someone to get offline. Then last Tuesday, my project manager wrote 'maybe we all need to touch grass on this one' in a thread about a pointless debate over branding colors. It clicked that it's shifted to mean stepping back from any pointless online or office drama. The term has fully jumped from Twitch chats to corporate Slack. It's wild how fast that happened. Has anyone else seen a niche internet phrase get that mainstream that quick?
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eric7231mo ago
Honestly, is it that wild though? Slang always moves from niche groups to the mainstream. It feels fast because we live online and see it happen. My bigger worry is that using it in a work email just kills the phrase dead. Now it's just corporate jargon.
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finleyh8920d ago
Disagree a bit. The jump to work emails is different from slang moving through friend groups. It's the official stamp of "this thing is dead now" when HR or a PM uses it. The fun gets sucked out immediately.
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