Over the last year or so I've found a new meaning for an old word enter into existence. Mash is now used to mean "to push" or "to select" as in .... mash a button on a phone.
For instance, at work we have a computerized dialer that makes hundreds of calls and it tells people to answer to select various options.
By the time I get people on the phone, many now tell me that "your computer system told me to mash the #2 if I wasn't the person."
Every time I hear someone use this new meaning I think ... no, our computer program did not tell you to mash the button. Mashing is for potatoes.
I just don't think of buttons as being mashable.
But some people sure do. I suppose it is the Internet having introduced new meanings?
Here's a tee I thought was cute from http://mashable.com/
For instance, at work we have a computerized dialer that makes hundreds of calls and it tells people to answer to select various options.
By the time I get people on the phone, many now tell me that "your computer system told me to mash the #2 if I wasn't the person."
Every time I hear someone use this new meaning I think ... no, our computer program did not tell you to mash the button. Mashing is for potatoes.
I just don't think of buttons as being mashable.
But some people sure do. I suppose it is the Internet having introduced new meanings?
Here's a tee I thought was cute from http://mashable.com/
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