the inevitable corruption of tongues

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#187657 - 11/04/09 02:51 PM Re: wee swarthy boxen [Re: dalehileman]
zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2459 Loc: R'lyeh	RAM For the record, a flash memory data storage device (aka USB flash drive, thumb drive, jump drive) does not use volatile RAM, but a kind of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory). I agree with Faldo. A hard drive and a jump drive, while technically quite different devices for different purposes, are indistinguishable to the user, both being something you store data on. It little matters if there are imps in there reading and writing data on vellum MSS.
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#187667 - 11/04/09 09:48 PM Re: archiphonemes dancing on the tip of a tongue [Re: dalehileman]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 12527	Originally Posted By: dalehileman Fal sorry if I was not clear but my contention was that the wording of your reply seemed to suggest that if one accepts the term "drive" for the device then he might conceivably have accepted "hard drive" as equally applicable, which notion you now evidently reject It's kind of like had arguing that a rugby football is a ball so therefore I must be arguing for the validity of calling it a baseball. It just ain't so.
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#187672 - 11/05/09 01:18 PM Re: archiphonemes dancing on the tip of a tongue [Re: Faldage]
dalehileman Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1773 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA	zm thank you for that rundown, for confirming that the flash device isn't volatile. Fal forgive me once more for misreading but I still maintain it shouldn't be called a "drive" _________________________ dalehileman
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#187674 - 11/05/09 04:11 PM Re: archiphonemes dancing on the tip of a tongue [Re: dalehileman]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 9570 Loc: this too shall pass	re: overloading the term 'drive' daleh, even the term 'overload' is overloaded. as I've said elsewhere (and others have, too): context, context, context -joe (underloaded) friday
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#187677 - 11/06/09 06:07 AM Re: archiphonemes dancing on the tip of a tongue [Re: dalehileman]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 12527	Originally Posted By: dalehileman I still maintain it shouldn't be called a "drive" Fine. As long as you understand what people mean when they use the term that way and you make yourself clear when referring to the devices in question. And don't let me catch you using the word album to refer to a single CD or a single LP.
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#187712 - 11/10/09 12:53 PM Re: archiphonemes dancing on the tip of a tongue [Re: Faldage]
dalehileman Pooh-Bah Registered: 07/10/05 Posts: 1773 Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA	"And don't let me catch you using the word album to refer to a single CD or a single LP." Coincidentally one of my pet peeves as a former prescriptivist _________________________ dalehileman
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