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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

I am secretary of the Alpine Kite Flying Association. :-P

Actually helping out with the http://ACEC2010.info 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
http://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2010/season BYO credit card.

Regards Roland

On 2 April 2010 20:52, Hutchison, Geoffrey G <
hutchison.geoffrey.g at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

>  Roland,
>
> You gotta get a hobby.
>
> Geoff
>
> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Roland Gesthuizen
> *Sent:* Friday, 2 April 2010 8:20 PM
>
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *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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-- 
Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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