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People who didn't jive with Microsoft management found new jobs...?

>>omnigl+(OP)
Sorry to be 'that guy', but it's "jibe."

>>mayorm+h1
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

>>mayorm+h1
Hey, home', I can dig it. He ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap-up on you, man.

  [Subtitle: Yes, he is wrong for doing that]

>>mayorm+h1
An upvote to you, fellow pedant. We stand together.

>>belval+t4
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.

>>bregma+x6
Lay 'em down, and smack-em yack-em. COLD got to be!

>>Karell+yS
Apparently, many English speakers consider it to be acceptable, and have done so for more than half a century.

>>duderi+x01
Hey, you know what they say.

>>mayorm+h1
Not sorry enough, apparently.

>>mander+4g1
As a non-native english speaker, I didn't even know about jibe, while knowing about jive.

>>mander+4g1
Lots of English speakers consider "could of" to be acceptable, and have similarly done so for a few decades now. That doesn't make them right ;-)