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userbinator ◴[] No.44506358[source]
Somewhat less frequently, I also hear "invoke" or "execute", which is more verbose but also more generic.

Incidentally, I find strange misuses of "call" ("calling a command", "calling a button") one of the more grating phrases used by ESL CS students.

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pansa2 ◴[] No.44506396[source]
> strange misuses of "call"

My favourite (least favourite?) is using “call” with “return”. On more than one occasion I’ve heard:

“When we call the return keyword, the function ends.”

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jamesfinlayson ◴[] No.44506779[source]
I remember someone in university talking about the if function (which ostensibly takes one boolean argument).
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1. ahartmetz ◴[] No.44512872[source]
I frequently see people treating if as if it was "taking a comparison", so: if (variable == true) ...