[Year 12 IT Apps] Hacking through the classroom IT Language

[Hutchison, Geoffrey G]

Roland,

 

You gotta get a hobby.

Geoff

 

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[mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Roland Gesthuizen
Sent: Friday, 2 April 2010 8:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Hacking through the classroom IT Language

 

Gets interesting when nouns change to verbs (ala Google to google) ..
interesting hybrids such as cybertroqueur and cyberattaque.

On 2 April 2010 18:21, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

Apart from the political spin on language (my favourite being the
"40th anniversary of human invasion of the Moon"), there are many
changes in the use of language in technology happening before us.

For example

- "Have you got a USB I can borrow?" as a request for a USB memory
stick, rather than the actual USB port or bus.
- The use of "radar" or "laser" as a synonym for a speed camera based
on that technology.
- The term "blog" being used by newspapers for what most of us would
call a single blog posting on a blog.
- 30 years ago boasting about having a "plasma" in your lounge room
would only happen if you were busy separating blood or were a
physicist with a rather substantial bunch of equipment to produce a
magnetic field to contain the ionised plasma in question.
-  "An MP3" referring to a song in MP3 audio file format (we never
refer to "an Excel" though we do use the term "a PowerPoint" ...wonder
why).

"Upload" and "download" seem to be used interchangeably by some
people, and I've lost count of how many times I've heard TV programs
ask me to "log on" to their website - when they just meant visit it.

Many old textbooks show an entirely different meaning for CPU than its
current meaning.

Perhaps we should also mention regional pronunciations as part of the
language issues of technology?

The acronym "URL" -  I've heard this pronounced as the common "you are
ell" , as "ural" and also as "earl" (very common in one profession)

"GIF" occurs as both "giff" and "jiff"

While it's perhaps out of our area, "quark" is usually pronounced to
rhyme with dark, but also in its original form which rhymes with pork.

I guess this adds more complexity to an already complex area...





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