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A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 26 points 19 hours ago (5 children)

The expression is "en masse". It's French for "in great quantity".

[–] HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Americans can't do anything en masse.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thy can, when it comes to their body weight lol

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 10 hours ago

That's more en massif

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

On mass is literally en masse in English . . .

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It literally isn't. Literally, "on" doesn't translate to "en", as it literally means "in". Literally, the "masse" in French here doesn't refer to literal "mass" as in a quantity of literal matter to be literally measured, but literally an uncountable concept like a literal crowd, for example.

So, which mass are you quitting on?

And in any case, to be literally correct the expression taken from another literal language should be literally italicized.

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works -1 points 7 hours ago

En means like eight different things in french depending on context, so does on in english. Mass also means large numbers of people.

Everyone knew exactly what he meant because it's pretty much a word for word translation of the french expression...

But sure man, it's really important everyone knows you know the original french expression.

[–] bless@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Could of told me sooner

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Son of a birch

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 hours ago

For all intensive purposes its the same.