Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
The Redmond giant
One of my least favorite things in journalism. Idk if it is SEO or what but it’s so bizarre.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
It’s just a writer seeking to vary their language a bit. It’s a trick to keep themselves from repeating “Microsoft” quite so many times in a short span, as too much word repetition can cause readers to “tune out”.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
That’s fair enough, but “the X giant” in particular I see so often. It feels like an in-joke amongst journalists or something.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh I could help them out with a few synonyms: The asshats with the Internet Explorer, the start menu advertising clowns, the BSOD guys…
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
It sucks so bad when people do this in Russian.
Same person monotonously being referred to as “young woman” (not that it has anything to do in the context, just to replace “she” or “<name>”), “<hobby>”, “<profession>”, “<place where they live>”, some other crap instead of refactoring and compressing the text a bit.
It works when there’s relevant information.