Re: "falling over" or "fell over" ...
You may call it "informal", but I've been hearing it at Board level meetings and seeing it written in failure reports for several decades now. At the very least, it's in the common vernacular.
When you think about it, it is one of the few technical terms that you don't have to translate into single syllable words before the C* suite understands it. Handy.
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