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Default OT: What words or phrases annoy you?

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 10:13:48 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 6/11/2021 9:20 AM, Wade Garrett wrote:
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.


"Price point" instead of "price."


They have different meanings and not interchangeable. I guess many
don't know that.


Exactly
In the simplest terms price is an absolute number and price point is
an approximate price they are shooting for in development.