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A NEW PLUGIN for Google Chrome is designed to highlight words that undermine a person’s message on email.
Just Not Sorry scans your email draft and highlights words like “just”, “sorry”, and “I think”, which make the sender sound less confident.
The way words are highlighted is similar to how a spelling error is marked, but with a slightly different colour to differentiate between the two.
The plugin was created by software developers Cyrus Innovation as part of the Female Founder Initiative.
According to one of its creator Tami Reiss, they decided to make it after she noticed a group of women “softening their speech in situations that called for directness and leadership”.
“When someone uses one of these qualifiers, it minimizes others confidence in their ideas”, explains Reiss in a Medium post. ”Qualifiers hint to the reader that you don’t have faith in what you’re saying. The last thing you need is to seem unsure of yourself”.
We’re found in our beta tests that not only does this reduce the use of these terms in email, but it builds mindfulness to avoid them in all written and verbal communication.
Since the plugin was released last week, the group set an initial target of 10,000 downloads by the new year. It reached that target on the second day and had been downloaded nearly 30,000 times.
The group has also made the tool open-source, allowing other users to add new words or phrases that might undermine a message.
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Payback…. Ireland produced Linda Martin….
But remember when she lost one year to those Swedish boys, we all called foul and fix too !
Yeah, Linda Martin was robbed.
Unfortunately they gave her back.
A bit late to be wondering about it now!
1968
two years after the brits started their murder campaign
Limerick, you truly are a sad man-this is not a place for Sinn Fein lines. Run along now please.
1968 ??? But what about the 800 years ??? I for one am shocked you didn’t even manage to squeeze Vinegar Hill into a completely unrelated issue.
As for Franco getting his own way . It wouldn’t supprise me. Modren version would be something like Qatar ‘winning’ the World Cup. Tyrants aren’t against doing this to boost their own profile.
If the country seems to look good to its own people, they do by association.
I remember a certain Mr Haughey in France at the finnish of some bike race in 1987.
Qatar…..world cup…but temperatures get into the mid 40′s during the day…..don’t be silly Paddy!
Ah sure plenty of sunscrean. Be grand!!
If we qualify for Qatar then Steve Staunton should get a call up. Add 30 years & 20 degrees to the head on him in Giants Stadium & it would be far more entertaining than the football!
Sour grapes ! Cliff Richard said the sane thing when he didn’t win a few years later ! And the english have claimed that they lost out in a similar way on many occasions, the most famous one was when The New Seekers lost out to Vicky Leandros in 1972 .
The New Seekers Beg,Steal or Borrow was one of the top 10 Eurovision songs
Honestly? It’s no better or no worse than Congratulations, AND I’m sure the chorus would’ve been a lot easier to learn!
Coulter should be taken out and shot for penning the third rate ‘Ireland’s call’. An utter embarrassment at every Ireland rugby match.
Sore losers if you ask me.
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