> Chances are, when you say "double click" to a

> fellow manager, they understand you are suggesting

> that they should carefully check the

> work/task/whatever.

You know, among people fluent in English, there has long been a term "double check" for this.

I wonder:

o Did someone who didn't know how to use English

start saying "double click" because they* didn't

know the difference?

o Did some people, who were in _way_ over their

heads working in a computer technology

environment, decide to say "double click" for

"double check" because they thought it would sound

cooler and/or more "computerish?" Presumably the

miscreants would have been people inclined to

choose bad style over good substance.

Either way, I think it sounds idiotic.

But I don't think you (Rands) are idiotic, even

if some Managementese shows strong signs of having

been coined by highly assertive mental defectives.

*Yes, I use the indefinite-gender pronoun "they",

and I know it was the accepted English standard

before some sexists a few centuries ago decided

to prescriptively make English "more like Latin".

If you don't like it, go suck your #$#$. And I am

not Burningbird either. :-)