Is this a trick question?? You recently started a new thread on Kosher or sea salt (not necessarily one and the same) on the Cooking forum. Once you hit 'submit' on the screen, the site will come back and tell you if the posting was successful or not. This happens when you post a new thread on any forum.

Yes, I was in jest. Being a long time computer programmer, everything is seen as literal. I was just wondering if there is a recipe for cooking posts.......

Post stew, maybe?

Being computer literate, especially a programmer renders one's mind to see specific accuracy of words since computers will not accept slang or plays on words. Therefore we adopt the skill to taker everything literally.

Here are a few thorns in everyday life that one simply are not allowed to address.

Leverage: "I leveraged my funds to the business." It is a crude bastardisation of language. It takes a verb, to lever, that has become a noun, leverage, and twists the word into another verb even though it ends with the noun-defining ending –age

Too difficult to explain to the wall street nurds so I suffer fools in silence.

And another:

In the news: "The people were evacuated..." To evacuate means to remove the contents of something" The house was evacuated works, but when they say "to evacuate people' I picture either giving them enemas or inducing vomit.

TLGO.

So to see that my post was "added to cooking" was humorous relief that I felt obligated to share.

You might want to reconsider that narrow definition of 'evacuate'.....it also includes : "remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safe place. "several families were evacuated from their homes"

synonyms:remove, clear, move out, take away, shift" - Merriam Webster definition

DItto with leverage:

• "use borrowed capital for (an investment), expecting the profits made to be greater than the interest payable. "a leveraged takeover bid"
• use (something) to maximum advantage. "the organization needs to leverage its key resources"
• Language changes over time. And if it is accepted enough to be included in a resource like the most published dictionary in the English speaking world, then it is considered an accepted usage.

" "several families were evacuated from their homes"" is the operative here. The evacuation destination is specified however, "The people were evacuated"draws a whole nother scene for me. If it was that the "building was evacuated", would you conclude that the building was moved to a safer place?

"use borrowed capital for (an investment), ..." blah, blab blah, is a justifying new definition so that the nurds can believe that they are intelligent. One does not "leaverage" anything IMB. leverage is a noun. Would you say that you "computered the solution" ? I should be careful, I just might have just coined a phrase there.

You are not a programmer are you? (:

Not just computer nerds, you know - there are just certain folks who dig language and tend to notice things that others may never give a second thought.

And then there are English majors.