My current piss-boiler is “inbox.” As in “inbox me that report.” WTAF is wrong with “email”?
I reckon the “inbox me” might have started on Facebook? Pre-messenger, when threads/posts were being discussed in public, or in for sale posts, once two people want to make the conversation private, one would ask the other to send them a message to their Facebook inbox, which I presume then got shortened to “inbox me” and this has now crept to normal e-mail. At least that was where I first noticed the term. I think I may have used the term on Facebook myself. I try not to get too bothered about language evolving like this though – you might as well try and stop the tide. The useful stuff remains and the crap stuff gets discarded. Verbalisation of nouns is sometimes a fantastic way of being economic with words. Some of it works, some of it is a bit clunky.
CaptainFlashheart – Member
across the BBC
What exactly was wrong with “on”?
Presumably “on” was more suited to when the BBC had one channel and people spoke just like you’d still like them to? 😛