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> passive-aggressive: "I guess you are not the person who can make this decision.

Maybe it's my ESL, but I honestly never really got the passive agressive tone from a phrase like that.

I'm completely with you on the "could you forward" part though, but it just makes me chuckle before hitting the "delete forever" button.



It’s extremely passive aggressive. I’ve gotten similar emails - if I’m not responding to you, take the hint - don’t try to neg me into responding.


Oh, I can absolutely understand how one would perceive this as a passive aggressive statement.

I guess the ESL part makes me read this literally and maybe have a passing thought in the vein of "I am not, so what".




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