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Misinterpreting contextually appropriate diction is not pedantry.
148 4 ReplyYou should start going to meetings
134 0 ReplyBut they should participate, so technically they should attend meetings.
48 0 ReplyWell attending doesn't necessarily imply participating.
...Will someone please forward the meeting invite to me? I'd like to attend. Whether I participate is yet to be seen.
24 0 ReplyWell, it's yet to be HEARD. Unless we're able to see all participants at the same time
2 0 ReplyNo, it is indeed more likely to be seen via online text, as most people do not have irl contact with OP nor their phone number
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...and we don't have deer/frog eyes. Wow, this conversation has gone off the rails.
1 0 ReplyTechnically, there were no rails to begin with. So, if the conversation was never on the the non-existent rails, it certainly could not have gone off them.
3 0 Reply"Off the rails" is clearly an idiom in this scenario, and the "rails" are a metaphor for the original line ideation, which has been lost.
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24 2 ReplyTechnically.
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