This must happen fairly frequently.
Say you’re C.C. Sabathia’s agent, and you need to keep C.C. in the loop on some business matter–say, reaching out to Myanmar to make sure they have enough cotton fabric to produce the star hurler’s ginormous uniform pants.
You need to tell your secretary, or your assistant, or your “girl,” or whatever they call the agent underling in that situation to copy C.C. on the email.
Do you say, “Hey, can you CC C.C.?”
Or do you say, “Hey, can you CC Sabathia?”
Both are a bit hard to say, and ultimately susceptible to confusion–not a good situation when you’re talking about a client that’s worth like $200 million.
If it’s me, I probably go for accuracy more than expediency:
“Hey, lackey, can you CC Carston Charles Sabathia on this? And where the hell is my Jameson on the rocks?”
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