Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.
Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.
you laugh until your STEM-only software engineer tries to write marketing copy, he circumnavigated the marketing department and sent the ads at a conference straight to the contact without getting it approved.
I can’t post the text as it’ll dox me but here’s an approximation, about running, but instead imagine it’s a software product
#NO RUNNING
or exercise
^just ^running ^ability ^made ^better
Yeah I made the mistake of learning to write well in high school then majoring in engineering and being good at it. Unfortunately that meant I was the designated person in group projects for both doing the thing and writing it up
Circumnavigated? Like, sent it around to everyone in marketing, one after another?
That…doesn’t make much sense in the context you provided. Autocorrupt strikes again?
navigated around, to mean avoid, definition 2 here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/circumnavigate
That still doesn’t make a lick of sense in this context. It has the feel of someone picking the wrong word entirely.
just agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but really there’s little etymological or metaphorical difference except personal preference
but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)
That might be it. Circumvent in this context would make perfect sense to me, but circumnavigate threw me for a loop.