• slimerancher@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It did feel like exaggeration to me, but it could be my bias. May feel differently about it later.

      You are right about the fact that it could be an agency. Maybe I was just being pedantic 😀

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Eh, when someone says “private investigator,” I subconsciously assume there could be a group involved, and not one person. If I hire a tax preparer, there are probably multiple people involved (the person preparing the tax docs, the accountants auditing those docs, people auditing their software, etc).

        If someone says “private investigators,” I assume they contacted multiple agencies, perhaps on multiple occasions.

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      6 months ago

      Yes. Yes implying plurality for a singular thing is, by definition, exaggerating.