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Saw this absolutely stupid wording on my start screen today: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..."
Evidently MS, in their infinite stupidity, has re-enabled ads on the start screen even though I turned them off earlier. Looking into this more: Yes, yes they did. (Evidently on one of their 'minor point' updates.)
And the person who thinks 'matriculate' is a catchy word to entice people with should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets. 
Maybe this would keep them away from a keyboard: Chinese finger torture[^]
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There's always a possibility that there's a LLM behind this. It appears to be a common thing now, to write marketing copy from a prompt.
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If so, the person behind that decision should be fired, and not hired for anything more than cleaning toilets.
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I'm not even sure I'd hire someone that lazy to clean toilets. I'd be afraid they wouldn't use any cleaners.
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Make them lick it clean, then.
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I see a lot of clean bathrooms at MS just saying
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Maybe they just couldn't spell Ma*****ate.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Don't see why - Shift '8' is a relatively easy keystroke! 
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That's a '(' on a Norwegian keyboard.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Ads in the OS should be made illegal, I hope the EU will ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) MS over with an oil drill on this.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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"we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures"
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I had to look up that word and undoubtedly many non-English-as-first-language speakers with me (and probably some native English speakers as well) 
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Well, obviously the person who wrote the ad doesn't. 
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I consider my vocabulary to be pretty good. That usage didn't match my expectation, so I looked it up. Their usage is quite a stretch. The word is used so infrequently that most people won't be familiar with it, and will just be confused.
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I would hope that entry standards to college or university are these days still sufficiently high that anyone so admitted would know the meaning, given that matriculation is what has just happened to them!🙄
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I never matriculated though, I have myself "ingeschreven"! 
I'd sign up, join, enlist, enroll, start or sign up for college.
Guess I'm not articulate enough to matriculate 
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'Tis back-to-school season, sooo...
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David O'Neil wrote: "Matriculate your shopping over to [our browser] to help ensure low prices..."
So that's where the guy who came up with "reticulating splines" ended up...
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Reticulated refers to complex net-like color pattern, cool adjective for python ads.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The most dangerous thing in the world isn't stupidity. It's just a teeny bit a knowledge that erroneously gives someone enough false assurance that they know everything. I can say this despite the fact I've never matriculated.
Jeremy Falcon
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
I forget which historic figure said that, but it certainly holds true even today!
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There are three categories of knowledge: things I know that I know; things I know that I don't know; and things I don't know that I don't know.
My goal has always been to maximize the second category, minimize the third, and acknowledge that things in the first category likely have components in the second and third.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I can say this despite the fact I've never matriculated.
The more I read about the word's definition, the less certain I am about this being a good or bad thing.
Yay?
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It is time for you to matriculate to Linux. I did, and I'll never matriculate back.
What? You said Dottynet? Here's[^] the answer to that.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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"Matriculate: to be formally admitted to study at a university or college." Cambridge English Dictionary.
Hard to see what the word has to do with eliciting sales!
The only useful thing about Marketing is it keeps useless people off the streets.
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