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elephantium@lemmy.world 5 months agoCircumnavigated? 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?
Comment on I learned so much
elephantium@lemmy.world 5 months agoCircumnavigated? 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?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
navigated around, to mean avoid, definition 2 here: www.merriam-webster.com/…/circumnavigate
elephantium@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That still doesn’t make a lick of sense in this context. It has the feel of someone picking the wrong word entirely.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
just agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)
elephantium@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That might be it. Circumvent in this context would make perfect sense to me, but circumnavigate threw me for a loop.