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Posted by Netmask on 10/23/05 07:52
You are right of course for your country - but not necessarily mine - that's
the point you might get an answer from India or Hong Kong or Singapore or
Australia or New Zealand or UK all speaking English but not necessarily the
same abbreviations and colloquialisms - a little more exactitude in the
question will result in better answers... just a critique not a criticism..
"Keeper of the Purple Twilight" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:221020052316073286%no@spam.invalid...
> 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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