OT: What words or phrases annoy you?

Commander Kinsey · 2021-06-10T16:36:53+00:00

Tap instead of click.App instead of program.Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.Forward instead of forwards.

Jun 10, 2021 Last reply: 5 years ago 273 Replies

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Dean Hoffman 5 years ago

Speaking of schools, does anyone have an idea of how kids fared this past year learning wise? A U.S. national broadcast I listen to claimed the kids could just as well not bothered with schooling efforts in a lot of places this past year. No one really knew how to measure attendance this past year. Cameras on? Face scan of some sort? A kid in a room alone with just a computer will be sorely tempted........................ The best teacher I had was a tough old lady who knew she was in charge of her classroom. She wasn't shy about letting little boys know it. Public school, so not the nun with a ruler.

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rbowman 5 years ago

Same as it always was. The smart ones did okay and the fledgling burger flippers did what they always do.

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Commander Kinsey 5 years ago

Cargo goes on ships and shipments go in cars.

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Commander Kinsey 5 years ago

Because those folk can work out what to do?

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Commander Kinsey 5 years ago

Agreed.

No more annoying than the G being pronounced as not silent.

Never heard something so ridiculous. But I do detest "fifteen hundred hours". There are not one thousand five hundred hours in the day.

What's wrong with that? Most people don't know the make, since there weren't (many) other (famous) models made by them. Neither of those words sound any more likely to be a make.

I have no problem with that. Why do you need the plural indicated in both words?

That is amusing. "Rocket science" though is a stupid phrase, since there's not much to it, just equal and opposite reactions really.

I find the lower classes/races do that.

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Commander Kinsey 5 years ago

Then stop reading them.

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Commander Kinsey 5 years ago

Saleable instead of sellable.

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Commander Kinsey 5 years ago

Price doesn't have to be absolute. "What price should we put on the widgets?" "I think they're in high demand, around a couple of hundred dollars a box".

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