Oh I could help them out with a few synonyms: The asshats with the Internet Explorer, the start menu advertising clowns, the BSOD guys…
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hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months agoIt’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”.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
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.