Somewhere along the line, words morphed, changed meaning and morphed some more till we ended up using nouns as verbs and then we made those verbs meaningless.
Case(s) in point: solution and vision. Both have been co-opted by whoever the fuck and are now consistently used as verbs. Solutioning. Visioning. No. Just no.
Back to what landed me here. Words. Too few or too many have also been a massive problem for the past couple decades of all out tech progress.
When I see messages like this one from Audible, I can see the evidence of huge business issues. The low ‘give a shit’ level shows here:
This might be called UX Writing cuz it’s 2024 but it screams of management issues. How do I know this?
A few reasons:
1. Audible has been a struggling business since Amazon acquisition. Just do a bit of searching online (aka Googling)
2. Audible’s highest level tech support has never been able to merge my accounts. There are two of them (two records, one database, have some ideas about where, how and when it got fucked up but that’s a story for a different day. IYKYK
3. Audible messages like this one:
Your title’s almost ready Give us a few seconds while we load it to your Library, then refresh the page to start listening.
What? I know people don’t read but when they do, they get confused. Rightfully. This really makes no sense to a native English speaker and is evidence that no one at audible cares enough to make it make sense.
My audible subscription will continue to go through its cycles – resubscribe, cancel, rinse repeat until either I become to broke to afford the resubscribe or when i improve my patience for certain audio titles and wait till the awesome public library system has them.