Every other Wednesday when I log in to view my pay stub, I get annoyed by the little button that you click when you enter your password. It says Accept/Submit. First of all, they make you type in your password by clicking on a virtual keyboard, but it's not just any keyboard. The keys are in a different place on the keyboard each time you open the page so you can't get in any kind of routine about typing in your password. Anyway, have any of you ever seen the words accept and submit used as synonyms.
Accept: to receive with approval or favor; to undertake the duty/resonsibility of; to answer affirmatively; to understand as having a specific meaning; to acknowledge; to regard as normal, suitable, or usual.
Submit: to give over or yield to the power of authority of another; to present for the approval, consideration or decision of others; to offer as proposition or contention.
I suppose I can kind of see how some definitions of accept might fit in with entering a password into a computer, mainly the definition "toacknowledge." But, really, aren't accept and submit kind of opposites? Accept is more of a receiving thing. Someone else does or says something and you pass judgment on whether it is true or valid - the acceptor is the one giving the approval. Submit is a giving thing. Someone else is the judge of whether something is valid or true. The submitter is the one giving someone else something to approve.
Maybe it is implying a two-step process. First you accept what you have typed in (rather than canceling it to start over), then you submit it for approval (the approval of the program that accepts your submission).
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