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several roles. If the reader doesn't trust her boss, she should keep her distance and make communication as formal as possible to avoid misunderstanding. Or she could just lighten-up and take on the minor cognitive load of reading the text with as many reasonable
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 22, 2022 10:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly</font>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">As a boomer (I consider myself late-boomer, born in 57 but I think that puts me late-middle) I was (nicely) triggered by the bit about the ... use of ellipses ("how can you interpret that as anything but passive-aggressive?").
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">trigram analysis of my writing might well be dominated by that signature... While I may have a lot of PA twitches, I don't think that is how I express them... though the example makes it clear that PA can very much be ... in
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<div>Part 1 (Yes, the generation labels are out of order.)</div>
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