Raymond Chen's excellent blog The Old New Thing has spent much time cataloging the weird permutation of English that has grown up among people at Microsoft, whi

Raymond Chen's excellent blog The Old New Thing has spent much time cataloging the weird permutation of English that has grown up among people at Microsoft, which he calls "Microspeak": https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/tag/microspeak https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/tag/microspeak I'm guessing "turned down" is an emergent example of a new dialect, "Googlespeak."