Business BafflegabEuphemism
Per My Last Email
per my last EE-maylphrase
What it means
A phrase establishing, for the record, that you already said this, were ignored, and will be remembering it.
What it actually means
I am building a file on you.
How it is used in a sentence
"Per my last email, the deadline was Friday."
Filed under
Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.
Euphemism — The phrase hides something specific. We decode it.
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