On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:37:09 +0100, charles wrote:

In article , Commander Kinsey
wrote:
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.

Not every thing can be in tablet form.

We're in the 21st century, come on....

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.

How strange. I think of elder as a Church of Scotland 'rank'.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tre...h-trees/elder/

I'm an athiest so would have no reason to know about church ranks.

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

My younger daughter calls us "groans"

That may also be descriptive.