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As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Serious question, not a native speaker: Why do people in the Anglosphere refer to mostly-software companies as tech companies, or to software developers as tech workers?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Tech is short-hand for technology.
So, technology companies and technology workers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

But the question was why

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