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Posted by Keeper of the Purple Twilight on 10/23/05 04:16
In article <DXD6f.25383$U51.472@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, Netmask
<netmask56NoFleas@geemail.com> wrote:
> PS I wish people wouldn't abbreviate or use diminutives as English as it is
> spoken and understood around the World can be quite different - so speak of
> a DVD blank or a DVD player. The same thing occurs with Midi files that get
> abbreviated to "midi's" this could mean anything in some
> countries..including a brand of condoms...
Using the term 'DVD' by itself, means just that: a DVD. Can be a blank
one, or a prerecorded movie. Still just means 'DVD'. It's always meant
that.
I mean, saying 'DVD disc' would be redundant, since DVD *means* digital
video DISC. So it'd be like saying digital video disc disc. :)
(this is also why nobody should ever use the phrase "ATM machine" - the
M already stands for machine)
--
"No urban night is like the night [in NYC]...here is our poetry, for we have
pulled down the stars to our will."
- Ezra Pound, poet and critic, 9/18/1912, reflecting on New York City
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