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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Roland,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You gotta get a hobby.<br>
<br>
Geoff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 2 April 2010 8:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Hacking through the classroom IT Language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Gets interesting when nouns
change to verbs (ala Google to google) .. interesting hybrids such as
cybertroqueur and cyberattaque.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On 2 April 2010 18:21, ken price <<a
href="mailto:kenjprice@gmail.com">kenjprice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Apart from the political spin on language (my favourite
being the<br>
"40th anniversary of human invasion of the Moon"), there are many<br>
changes in the use of language in technology happening before us.<br>
<br>
For example<br>
<br>
- "Have you got a USB I can borrow?" as a request for a USB memory<br>
stick, rather than the actual USB port or bus.<br>
- The use of "radar" or "laser" as a synonym for a speed
camera based<br>
on that technology.<br>
- The term "blog" being used by newspapers for what most of us would<br>
call a single blog posting on a blog.<br>
- 30 years ago boasting about having a "plasma" in your lounge room<br>
would only happen if you were busy separating blood or were a<br>
physicist with a rather substantial bunch of equipment to produce a<br>
magnetic field to contain the ionised plasma in question.<br>
- "An MP3" referring to a song in MP3 audio file format (we
never<br>
refer to "an Excel" though we do use the term "a
PowerPoint" ...wonder<br>
why).<br>
<br>
"Upload" and "download" seem to be used interchangeably by
some<br>
people, and I've lost count of how many times I've heard TV programs<br>
ask me to "log on" to their website - when they just meant visit it.<br>
<br>
Many old textbooks show an entirely different meaning for CPU than its<br>
current meaning.<br>
<br>
Perhaps we should also mention regional pronunciations as part of the<br>
language issues of technology?<br>
<br>
The acronym "URL" - I've heard this pronounced as the common
"you are<br>
ell" , as "ural" and also as "earl" (very common in
one profession)<br>
<br>
"GIF" occurs as both "giff" and "jiff"<br>
<br>
While it's perhaps out of our area, "quark" is usually pronounced to<br>
rhyme with dark, but also in its original form which rhymes with pork.<br>
<br>
I guess this adds more complexity to an already complex area...<br>
<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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