Obsolete phrases 2808
While we're on the topic of new topics, how about those phrases that get corrupted (e.g. by homonym errors) by people who...
Stamps already ARE currency, effective by some international treaty from the 1850's, already implemented before the US Civil War broke out. currency. This is...
I've programmed about fifty lines of COBOL in my entire career. But as it happens, I do remember that one.
We've got those too. The "...WAY" one usually means that the road or alley has no way out, other than to exit the way you're about to enter. The "...ROAD" one usually means that there may be another way out, but you're still going to end up back here. That is, you may enter a parking lot this way, and it may have another exit, but if you look to your left or right, you're going to see that other exit somewhere close by. Or maybe I've got them backwards. And as I recall they're not used consistently anyway.
Yes, that too. Also "lite" for "light" (illumination or low weight or reduced in some other way).
I just told someone in another group who seemed surprised that his conduct there was why people disliked him that he should consider that, online anyway, all we are is words on a screen. If your presentation (in his case, conduct) was such that people didn't want to deal with you, it wouldn't matter a bit whether what you had to say was interesting or important or not. He was engaging in the equivalalent of a lousy phone connection. All people were seeing was his static. Your comments about single-letter subsbreastutes for full words is another good example of this.
- Bill
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