How many times would we have to hear about “connectivity’’, when what people really were was “connected”?
How many times would we have to wish that people who said “about this space’’ or “in this space’’ would be sent to outer space?
Above all, what was the point of the word “point” being added to everything? A public service information area at Flinders St Station isn’t a “Help point”, it’s just “Help” . A “touch point” is a touch screen. My 87-year-old mother doesn’t use a “single point ” walking cane: she’s always used a walking stick.
But a few months into 2020, a once-in-a-hundred-year health crisis came long in the form of COVID-19 and provided a tonic for western society’s nonsense talk ailment.