Today I had a flashback to senior year of high school, when Mr. P., the French teacher, told my class that we weren't allowed to use the word "quelque chose" anymore because we used it all. the. time. I think we were driving him nuts. :-)
Ms. Green: "OK, so if the 'convert' method needs to know all of those variables that you got from the user in the 'run' method, how is it going to get them?"
Pouty Student (huffily): "I don't know! <pause> You know, with those things.
MG: "What things?"
PS: Those things that come after the...other thing!
MG: Ummm....that's a lot of things. What are those things, anyway?
(I couldn't help it, I started to giggle here and so did the PS)
PS: They're inside the...things. (now we are both giggling)
PS: I'm supposed to know these words, aren't I?
MG: Yup.
PS: 'Parameters'.
MG: Bingo. Parameters in the parentheses.