Where did 'Make/Made an account' come from?

[Five_Inch_Heels]

In relation to bank accounts; checking, savings, credit cards and so on. I keep seeing 'I made an account ... ', 'I tried to make an account ...', 'How do I make an account?' or several similar variations.


Customers don't 'make' accounts. Banks do. Customers apply for or open accounts.

Is there a basis for this? Or just a further bastardization of language?

 

[onehitwanda]

Bastardisation of language. The correct form would be various tenses and forms of the verb "to open" - an account is opened or closed, probably because an account is tied to a ledger, which used to be a book.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

So, like 'Imma' or 'tryna'.


I use slang quite a bit, even here in posts, but these don't seem like slang at all. More like Gen(whatever) type of speak.

 

[PennyThompson]

In relation to bank accounts; checking, savings, credit cards and so on. I keep seeing 'I made an account ... ', 'I tried to make an account ...', 'How do I make an account?' or several similar variations.


Customers don't 'make' accounts. Banks do. Customers apply for or open accounts.

Is there a basis for this? Or just a further bastardization of language?

Most websites and online services use "create an account" language, not "open an account" language.

I can't remember the last time I walked into a physical bank, basically all of my financial interactions take place online, so it makes sense to me to think of them in terms of online services.

On the other hand, when I go to a bar I "open a tab," I don't "apply for a tab"

 

[Actingup]

Most websites and online services use "create an account" language, not "open an account" language.

I can't remember the last time I walked into a physical bank, basically all of my financial interactions take place online, so it makes sense to me to think of them in terms of online services.

On the other hand, when I go to a bar I "open a tab," I don't "apply for a tab"

Just keep your tab password safe!

 

[alohadave]

In a bank, you open an account. On a website/service, you create an account.

Creating an account implies that you are initiating and doing the legwork yourself through an automated process.

Technically they are the same thing, but language loves to twist like this.

 

[PennyThompson]

Just keep your tab password safe!

ugh I hate it when bars and restaurants make you do every interaction on your phone via QR codes, my most boomer trait is that I just want a paper menu!

 

[Britva415]

just a further bastardization of language?

I definitely think it's a bastardization of language to say that the nonhuman entity is the one whose decision led to the creation/opening/whatever of an account. That decision and that action are unequivocally those of the customer.

I'll allow a little leeway for those situations where you have to apply and there is an actual decision-making process on the part of the account grantor (let's call them the vendor, since these are commercial applications and the applicant is a customer). But if it's 100% automated and is entirely within the customer's agency to make it happen through their own actions, then, it's them who did it. They just employed a system the vendor put in place for that purpose, but the vendor didn't create the account for them.

Opening accounts for customers got Wells Fargo fined $3 billion and got several of their executives variously fired, forced to resign, fined, civilly sued, and criminally charged, settled with pleas. No jail time but fraud is fraud, let's call it what it is when a business opens accounts "for" people.

 

[Actingup]

ugh I hate it when bars and restaurants make you do every interaction on your phone via QR codes, my most boomer trait is that I just want a paper menu!

We don’t have to be boomers to enjoy running our fingers and eyes up and down a beautifully printed, lightly textured menu in seductive fonts. Not forgetting to glance up at the specials board, of course.

 

[onehitwanda]

ugh I hate it when bars and restaurants make you do every interaction on your phone via QR codes, my most boomer trait is that I just want a paper menu!

There's something comfortingly sensual about paper. All my most-loved books are paperbacks.

 

[Nightaelf]

ugh I hate it when bars and restaurants make you do every interaction on your phone via QR codes, my most boomer trait is that I just want a paper menu!

I used to design menus for cafés, restaurants and beachresorts. I don't mind the QR codes though, I just wished the design and functionality were better.

 

[PennyThompson]

We don’t have to be boomers to enjoy running our fingers and eyes up and down a beautifully printed, lightly textured menu in seductive fonts. Not forgetting to glance up at the specials board, of course.

There's something comfortingly sensual about paper. All my most-loved books are paperbacks.

Um... Guess I'm going to do a self-date to the used bookstore and then the cafe with the letterpressed menus...

 

[alohadave]

We don’t have to be boomers to enjoy running our fingers and eyes up and down a beautifully printed, lightly textured menu in seductive fonts. Not forgetting to glance up at the specials board, of course.

Raised lettering, pale nimbus, white.

 

[PennyThompson]

Raised lettering, pale nimbus, white.

*Gently rubbing the skin of my fingertips with sandpaper like a safecracker, the better to feel the texture of the embossed ink*

Maybe this needs to be moved to the Fetish board...

 

[SkyBubble]

I "open a tab,"

Do you know how the old beverage TAB got its name?

 

[onehitwanda]

Braille is orgasms for the fingers.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I definitely think it's a bastardization of language to say that the nonhuman entity is the one whose decision led to the creation/opening/whatever of an account. That decision and that action are unequivocally those of the customer.

It may be the decision of the customer to apply for an account.

It is the Bank's decision whether or not to make the account.

Banks often decline applications.

Customers have no part in the Bank's decision.

 

[Britva415]

From a prescriptivist motivation, sure, it's a bastardization of language.

From a descriptivist motivation, the prescriptivist position is the bastardization.

Most of us are neither hard prescriptivists nor hard descriptivists. So, most of us aren't going to agree with either one, and wouldn't call either position bastardization.

 

[SkyBubble]

Most of us are neither hard prescriptivists nor hard descriptivists. So, most of us aren't going to agree with either one, and wouldn't call either position bastardization.

I tend to be prescriptivist. But this is pretty clear-cut. You apply, set up an account here; Lit has the option of declining it. The mere fact that it almost never happens doesn't mean it can't. If they catch a person with two accounts, for example, they'll most likely ban both and ban that user's IP address. So technically Literotica "makes" the account.

 

[OralAllOver]

In relation to bank accounts; checking, savings, credit cards and so on. I keep seeing 'I made an account ... ', 'I tried to make an account ...', 'How do I make an account?' or several similar variations.


Customers don't 'make' accounts. Banks do. Customers apply for or open accounts.

Is there a basis for this? Or just a further bastardization of language?

In YOUR day, in your life, you have outrage for this?

I'm jealous

 

[Nynah]

ugh I hate it when bars and restaurants make you do every interaction on your phone via QR codes, my most boomer trait is that I just want a paper menu!

The bars with the best food are invariably the ones with laminated menus that have been stood the test of time and have warped edges. Can't explain why but that's been my experience every time.

There's something comfortingly sensual about paper. All my most-loved books are paperbacks.

My mom left me her well-loved copy of Terry Pratchett's "The Colour of Magic". I think it's from the first paperback run of the novel and the edges are worn and yellowed and it smells pulpy and woodsy, with just a hint of vanilla.

 

[SmilingLez]

Perhaps most human beings don't understand the word 'create'.

 

[Actingup]

Um... Guess I'm going to do a self-date to the used bookstore and then the cafe with the letterpressed menus...

Just name a time and place, and some of your weird online friends can join you*.

*subject to visa approval. I may need to check my social media accounts.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Perhaps most human beings don't understand the word 'create'.

That's certainly true.

Most of us don't even speak English.

--Annie

 

[Nightaelf]

There's something comfortingly sensual about paper. All my most-loved books are paperbacks.

I completely agree. Paper and print are deeply sensual.

I’m a certified graphic technical engineer and worked for years on offset printing presses. I miss that sometimes. Graphic design is fun too, but I miss the craft.