Words that drive me mad
I feel like thrashing my desktop or banging my head against the wall on seeing the following words in user documents and emails: On approval or once approved Bolded Revert back Impacted The problem with the first word is if the user has to do an action after a particular step or authorisation, I can write, "After xyz task, ...". Why should the word "once" be used? In the printing industry, the word "bold" stands for "boldface". It is a character or type set in boldface. According to a printing glossary , "Bold is a type that appears darker than the next type of the same typeface." The adjectives are bolder and boldest, and not bolded . Technical writers can use make bold or set to bold instead of bolded that gives a puking sensation . The same applies to impacted . Even though, this is a popular , I will substitute it with another word or rewrite the sentence. I do not know who discovered the expression "revert back" as...