One of my multitude of peeves is the phrase “special characters.”
Somehow,
our lexicon has been corrupted by semiliterate middle-schoolers,
who have never learned that the name for ,.;: and so on is
punctuation and/or symbol. Dustin Hoffman’s Raymond
was a special character. Period ain’t.
This week,
Robert F.
had the misfortunate to step into it, and observed
“What boggles my mind is that someone had to actively
choose to create a validation rule specifically for this.”
Saver
Stewart
was frustrated by Fido’s failure to refresh a field in their messages app.
“It isn’t reassuring when a major financial corporation can not count to zero correctly,” he fretted.
I figure they just reached zero and didn’t update every element on-screen immediately.
In an echo of earlier error’ds, an anonymous member of our Helvetian contigent reminds
us that Swiss Railway’s apps
(not to be confused with SwissRail’s Zoppas)
sind immer noch schlecht. Sagt mann
“Ah, perfect! The Swiss Railways’ app is telling me that I’ll be there in NULL time 👌” Super!
“Even in the best families…” laments
Lucio Crusca
, shaking his head sadly.
“This is WhatsApp Web since yesterday on my PC.”
Finally,
“I didn’t think my age would be a problem…” stammered junior
Jake.
The cutoff age must be 34.5. Patience, grasshopper.
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