I am secretary of the Alpine Kite Flying Association. :-P<br><br>Actually helping out with the <a href="http://ACEC2010.info">http://ACEC2010.info</a> conference technical committee has chewed up a fair bit of my spare time. Looks like being a FAB event with many IT friends traveling down here from interstate. If anybody is still not sure about going, you can still get a good price on a one-day ticket and join in, then catch an evening show at the Comedy Festival <a href="http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2010/season">http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2010/season</a> BYO credit card. <br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 April 2010 20:52, Hutchison, Geoffrey G <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hutchison.geoffrey.g@edumail.vic.gov.au">hutchison.geoffrey.g@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Roland,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">You gotta get a hobby.<br>
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[mailto:<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roland Gesthuizen<br>
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</div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Hacking through the classroom IT Language</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Gets interesting when nouns
change to verbs (ala Google to google) .. interesting hybrids such as
cybertroqueur and cyberattaque.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 2 April 2010 18:21, ken price <<a href="mailto:kenjprice@gmail.com" target="_blank">kenjprice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</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>
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For example<br>
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- "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>
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"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>
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Many old textbooks show an entirely different meaning for CPU than its<br>
current meaning.<br>
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Perhaps we should also mention regional pronunciations as part of the<br>
language issues of technology?<br>
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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>
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"GIF" occurs as both "giff" and "jiff"<br>
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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>
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I guess this adds more complexity to an already complex area...<br>
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