• The Quuuuuill
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      582 months ago

      it’s like how every so often you have to tell someone referring to the final design for a software project as “the final solution” is probably not the best phrasing

      • @j5906@feddit.org
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        362 months ago

        In my first practical chemistry course I referred to a container filled with gas as “gas chamber”, to make things worse I am german…

      • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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        92 months ago

        An industry publicist once did a lecture to us and one of his slides was “the final solution to the emission question”. He did mention that it was his colleague who titled it lmao

        • @idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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          62 months ago

          That’s so much worse. Solution and question aren’t as natural a pairing as solution and problem or answer and question, and the only only example of them going together as an established phrase that comes to mind is the nazi one.

          If the coworker exists, they must have hated him

      • Kualdir
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        82 months ago

        Wait I need to know why, I actually don’t get that

    • Ziglin (it/they)
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      22 months ago

      Probably, I assume they were just tired and wanted to sleep at that point though.