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1. Francu+ma[view] [source] 2023-06-29 18:14:09
>>AlphaW+(OP)
Issues like this are happening almost every 2 weeks. What has been happening to GitHub lately?
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2. omnigl+Ib[view] [source] 2023-06-29 18:20:08
>>Francu+ma
People who didn't jive with Microsoft management found new jobs...?
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3. mayorm+Zc[view] [source] 2023-06-29 18:26:49
>>omnigl+Ib
Sorry to be 'that guy', but it's "jibe."
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4. belval+bg[view] [source] 2023-06-29 18:41:33
>>mayorm+Zc
Seems very pedantic considering that people have been saying jive since the 40s according to Merriam-Webster[1].

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/jive-jibe-gibe

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5. Karell+g41[view] [source] 2023-06-29 22:51:11
>>belval+bg
Yes, but people haven't been using it incorrectly for long enough for it to be considered acceptable, by the very citation you've given:

> This does raise the question of why we don't enter this sense of jive, even though we have evidence of its use since the 1940s. [...] So far, neither jive nor gibe as substitutions for jibe has this kind of record [literally hundreds of years], but it seems possible that this use of jive will increase in the future, and if it does dictionaries will likely add it to the definition.

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