On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 17:20:30 +0100, Scribbles wrote:

On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 5:36:57 PM UTC+1, 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.

Jabbed instead of vaccinated - presumably, a tabloid sub-editor's term to assist those readers too stupid to cope with words of more than one syllable.

I say jabbed (or jagged) because it's a horrid thing to have done to you. I ain't getting a piece of steel shoved into my insides. You want something inside me, give me a tablet.

Elderly - makes me grind my teeth. Why not just say "old"?

Indeed. It used to be worse. "My elder brother". The word elder always makes me think of a tree.

Tha Aussies call their parents "olds" which is amusing.

Passed away, passed on, passed over or left us. FFS, if you mean died, say so!

I must admit I use those, for example when my neighbour's elderly (ROFL) brother died. I wanted to show I was being polite, without having to bother with a long sentence describing my feelings.

Not sure why religious people care about death, aren't you meant to get another one like in a computer game?