i love the "Do say" and "Don't say" sections; how else am i supposed to speak like gen alpha

Yeah, the Guardian's "pass notes" series has been going for a while and is regularly absolute gold[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/07/death-o...

learning some vocabulary had been eye opening for me

like the stories behind when those words first appeared in the software engineering

like quiescence the most recent one i learned