[Proposal] select → choose

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  • Month Seven 24, 2026 at 9:05 pm #1519
    zhonglish
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    This is a proposal to retire the word select in favor of choose.

    Latin root. \”Select an option\” → \”choose an option.\” More democratic, less clinical.

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    Month Seven 24, 2026 at 10:20 pm #1856
    willpets
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    ‘Select’ sounds fancier than ‘choose’ but means exactly the same thing. Nobody selects dinner. They choose dinner. Select is what dropdown menus do.

    Let the computers keep it. Everyone else gets ‘choose.’

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