Copper Zen said:
Makes some sense and I just say "Call" anyway.
Rarely hear this beyond radio and TV programs, which still technically need tuning, its just not the same as it used to be.
This one is understandable, but eh. "Tape" is the shortest way to put it. Normally people I know'll just say record, but it is understandable to take the shorter option.
This is just stupid. Webcam is easier to say than connected cam, communications cam or whatever else he wants to call it, and its as accurate too considering that's not all the camera is used for. Calling it simply a camera is also incorrect as that has other connotations.
Again, just stupid pendantry. Who cares whether people respect the term more than "Personal Web Site" or W/E, its a freaking Blog and if it is a blog you call it as such.
I mostly call them tower rigs, but Desktop isn't necessarily inaccurate. Many people still have the old Horizontal designs, and others get their towers and shove them on their desk. "Stationary Computer" isn't always accurate either, and is unnecessarily lengthening the name for pedantry.
Again, this is just shorter to say. We don't say "Evaporated Water Particles" instead of steam, even though we've known for centuries that that's all that it is, there's no reason to take a term that works and lengthen it to be more 'correct'. Film works fine. Shoot makes less sense than film TBH, you're not firing a projectile so why advocate shoot as what you should say? Because its accepted slang? Great, so's film.
TBH I think smartphone is just something phone companies say on ads to sell their phone. Everyone I know just refers to theirs as their phone, or their I-phone, and does use it 90% of the time for calling or SMSing. Calling it something else is rather ignorant of the fact that that's what you bought it for. Sure it has other functions you might use it for more often, but you bought it to use as a phone.
Nothing wrong with this. I personally say browse or explore instead, but surfing the web is a commonly accepted turn of phrase that doesn't even have a logical reason as to why it should stop existing.
I have never even heard this term before, so W/E.
If its a Hard Drive you plug into your network, its just a Network Drive rather than a Personal Cloud. This is true. Personal Cloud is also IMO harder to say. Thankfully though I have never heard this said so W/E.
Same as Smartphone, its just advertising that phone companies use. I call it a phone, that's enough.
You know, even when we did have bricks of TVs I never saw one of these on top of a TV. It always ran the risk of falling off. Granted I wouldn't ever call an Apple TV or something a set top box, but actual set top boxes are, and its easier to say than digital media management device, or W/E else you would call them. Its a set top box, its easy to say, and its just a name that's going to stick.
