Terminology Gripes
Right, I’m sick to death of people calling computers ‘hard drives’.
A hard drive is small. Laptop hard drives are really diddy, but your average desktop hard drive is about 4 x 6 x 1 inch in size (bit smaller, but hey). These sit inside the box thing which some people insist on calling ‘the hard drive’. Its not. It’s the bloody computer. It’s like calling a car an engine. You don’t say ‘I got into my engine and drove to work’. OK, so maybe you call it a ‘hard drive’ to vincere alla roulette onlineonline gamblingroulette casinòcasino baccaratall download slotsmetodi per vincere alla roulettegiochi gratis video pokeri video pokercasino’ on linegiochi casino gratis on linefree texas holdem poker download,free online texas holdem poker,free texas holdemtexas hold em tipvideo poker downloadfree online texas holdem pokerfree poker gameon line poker gameplay 7 card stud pokertexas hold em,texas hold em poker,how to play texas hold em pokercrazy game of pokerdownload game holdem poker texas,texas holdem poker game,texas holdem tv poker gameplay money pokervideo poker homefree video pokeronline roulette pokerfree texas hold em pokermac online pokerinternet poker siteonline poker,online poker game,best online pokerplay poker,how to play texas holdem poker,how to play three card pokerbest online poker sitefree poker softwareonline poker softwarefree internet pokerpoker gamesonline poker siteonline poker downloadonline poker cheatvideo poker gamepoker freeonline poker no downloadomaha hi lo rule,how to play omaha hi lo,omaha hi lopoker download,no download poker,download poker superstarstexas hold em poker online,texas poker,texas holdem poker odds7 card stud softwareonline poker review7 card stud hands7 card stud tournamentscard games 7 card studonline poker strategyfun game home play poker distinguish it from the other bits. Well they have specialist names too to help you out. There’s the monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, printer, etc.
Grrr!
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People do however refer to their car as their ‘motor’
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I’m not sure I’ve encountered this.
I often here people referring to them as ‘pooters.’
And screens as ‘tellies.’
Actually, I do that sometimes
Many many moons ago, people would refer to them as the ’shoebox.’ That would be the days before the mouse.
Probably when people thought a digital watch was a pretty neat idea.
Dan, with that argument they should be calling the computer thier ‘disk’ then
Goron, digital watches are a neat idea
Come on boys, at least credit Mr Adams with that line
Oooh .. I was going to be smutty there .. but I shan’t
*slinks away hanging her head in embarrassment*
Dom - I totally get your gripe, I was just being intentionally annoying
evamedia - next you’ll be telling us to be nice to each other, at which point you’ll just end up being nailed to a tree
Cat - what were you going to say? And I got the chocolate
Wooo!
Dan - I know you were being annoying but I hate to be outpedantasized
I hate it when people point at the monitor and call it a computer and I sneer at people who call a computer a hard drive but most of all I hate it when people say that the Internet isn’t working. The whole Internet?
I guess you could conceed that the internet isn’t working in so far as it’s a quagmire of porn, phising sites, malware and spam and not the utopian global village we were promised… but you’d only conceed that while stood over the corpse of the person who suggested it while holding the still smoking gun.
Luddites: they’re on my list