modern terms

I have been struck lately, usually with a good deal of amusement, at the terms we now run into and use daily. Ever notice them?

When I wish to do something on many of the web pages I click a button that says "submit" grin...the funny thought thre is at all those dominant manly types doing hte same thing without thought.

 When I use a credit or debit card (which is almost every purchase) I am "accepted". Smiles..that is always uplifting to hear. We all want acceptance. But when the charge won't go through we are NEVER rejected...THE TRANSACTION is declined. A word with much more gentleness and connotations that are more temporary.

 I call and get put on "hold"...bringing back childhood memories of "you'll just have to hold it until the next gas station" but now, since so many companies have web pages we are offered the choice to hold it or to go to the web page and submit. Grin...who says business doesn't have the upper hand?

But all is not lost...when we start to feel too disempowered we can go buy something and once more be validated because we will be accepted. ;-)

Am keeping my eyes open for other amusing daily life terms with embedded concepts  that may be escaping us.

 

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