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How is it a fake letter? Sounds like a physical tangible thing.
🙄it’s not from T-Mobile, it’s a forgery. And, unless the letters are actually cake, we can infer that “fake” in this case means just that.
Please spare us the reddit pedantry. There are much more intelligent discussions to be had around this topic without avoiding it entirely to inject some grammar nitpicking.
Is there a possibility they're cake? I could go for some cake.
Maybe pedantry is not your cup of tea, but I listen to technology connections.
And the best type of correct is technically correct.
The whole reason to be precise about language is because it is confusing when you read something and go "that does not make sense" and then think about it for a minute and then realize what it means.
We don't call them "fake emails" for a reason. It's confusing. Spam email, spurious email, fake sender address, phishing, etc., are less confusing. Same with physical mail. Don't be mad just because I want to read stuff nice.
It's not imprecise at all and it's only confusing if you deliberately misinterpret it to be pedantic.
What do you call a fake ID then?
Are you telling me that my confusion was on purpose?
I'm telling you I was confused.
Don't believe me if you're so smart. Not going to argue.
Either it was on purpose or you're not nearly smart enough to be arguing about grammar and definitions on the internet.
Also you didn't answer my question.
Fake ID claims to be valid proof of id but is not.
From the headline I couldn't tell if the letter was purporting to be from tmobile or just somebody razzing people. I did not read the article. My brain fried on what a "fake letter" was.
People are not just smart on one dimension only. You can be smart and still get confused processing language. Asshole.
Fake : adjective Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.
They hating, but his got a chuickle outta me
You're confusing "fake" with "imaginary".