tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 06 11:26:35 2010
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Re: latlh mu' chu'
- From: "lojmIt tI'wI' nuv" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: latlh mu' chu'
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:24:13 -0500
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All computer storage DISKS are disk shaped, though there are DRIVES that are not disk shaped, like the Solid State Hard Drives (SSHD) that come with the current models of MacBook Air, or like the USB FLASH drives many of us carry around. We talk about hard disks and hard drives interchangeably. The only difference is that a hard disk indeed has one or more disk shaped storage medium inside, while a hard drive may or may not contain disks. Since most hard drives are hard disks (a.k.a. hard disk drives), then most of the time, it doesn't really matter.
Floppy disks confused some people because of the square packaging, but if you pulled it apart, you would indeed see a disk inside (unless you were British, in which case you saw a disc inside). Apparently, Brits were behind the development of the CD, so most optical storage media are called discs instead of disks (CDs or DVDs). Floppies and hard drives in that useful flat, round shape are reliably called disks because of their non-British heritage.
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lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>> It sounds as if Okrand thought {nagh beQ} would do for any sort
>> of picture/image and didn't understand why people were
>> uncomfortable with it.
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> Indeed, while I've always felt that it's strange to refer to a computerized image as a nagh beQ, I suppose it's really not much stranger than referring to a digital movie as a "film", or to a plastic table covering as a "tablecloth". Also, while I'm not a computer expert, I'm pretty certain that not all storage disks are disk-shaped.
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