My Dad
never used to say "photocopy", it was "photostat".

and can you remember Glen A.Larson's ropey 80s TV show Automan? It featured an abstract glowing entity called 'Cursor' that would draw his vehicles. My Dad, no matter how often I tried to correct him, would insist on calling 'Quasar'.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 9:12, 3 replies)

Well
Photostat may be annoying, but I believe there is at least a historical precedent for it's use. Photostat machines were the original photocopiers, although they were overtaken by electrostatic photocopying in the 1940s I think. Photostat was the name of the company which made them hence to photostat came to be used as a generic term for copying, in the same way as some older people use Xerox. Malaysians still use photostat as the noun and verb for photocopy. So there.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 9:34, closed)

And 'enter'
is really 'return'.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 15:30, closed)

reminds me of my IT teacher a few years back (the later days of XP)
he referred to everything by their old names. "program manager screen." that kind of thing.

he was a moody old git, he once gave someone a 15 minute detention for scratching their nose.

I've had worse though, but that is a story for another time...
(venort apparently exists, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:11, closed)