Edit to say because I kinda feel bad now: I have nothing against English teachers! Please don’t send your mafia of learned lit nerds after me! …Or do, lit nerds are hot.

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    5 months ago

    Circumnavigated? Like, sent it around to everyone in marketing, one after another?

    That…doesn’t make much sense in the context you provided. Autocorrupt strikes again?

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        5 months ago

        That still doesn’t make a lick of sense in this context. It has the feel of someone picking the wrong word entirely.

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          5 months ago

          just agree to disagree I guess? I considered circumvent which is similar, but really there’s little etymological or metaphorical difference except personal preference

          but also it might be an EN-UK vs EN-US thing (I grew up in England)

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            5 months ago

            EN-UK vs EN-US thing

            That might be it. Circumvent in this context would make perfect sense to me, but circumnavigate threw me for a loop.