Re:Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge
by C1sc0cat on Thursday February 07, 2019 @08:12AM
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It was always a "department store" when talking about Harrods Debenhams and so on etc a shop is more your local butcher or corner store (bodega)
Re:Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge
by chrisseaton on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:16AM
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Purchase vs buy, beverage vs drink. Not sure what the point in these slightly more technical sounding words that people seem to like to use.
Re:Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge
by cs02rm0 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @09:31AM
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Utilise vs use is the one that makes me want to get a bit stabby, especially when they correct their use of the word use to change it for utilise.
Sorry, I mean inclined to lacerate.
There are many things like that. For example, normal people say "tin", in my experience, but the signs in a shop seem to use "can" more often than "tin", bizarrely. You'd probably find many similar example if you walked round some UK shops looking at all the labels.
There's also a whole work/office jargon used in modern Britain: words and grammar that people use at work but wouldn't normally use at home or in the pub.
In general I don't like jargon. To me it seems both pretentious and small-minded. On the other hand, an obscure technical term, used correctly, is like a beam of sunlight or a breath of fresh air. To me, at least. Though they sometimes borrow from each other, jargon and technical vocabulary are very different things.