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Default OT: What words or phrases annoy you?

It happens that Wade Garrett formulated :
On 6/10/21 12:36 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
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.


I don't have any phrases I especially dislike- but what I hate is when people
act all intellectual and stuff...talking about Mozart and Beethoven when
theyve never even seen one of their paintings.


I've seen one of Frank Zappa's paintings on Antiques Roadshow. He
seemed highly influenced by that Art Deco fella who was all the rage.