Sunday, February 22, 2009

Grammar Lesson 1

Here's one tech-based spelling mistake that drives me nuts: disc and disk. Any optical media that is disc-shaped (e.g. circular) is a disc. This includes CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, etc. Anything that's solid state or platter-based or tape-based or whatever is a disk/diskette/hard disk. This includes old A and B drive disks, USB flash drives, and your computer's hard drive. Anyone who says disc and disk are interchangeable is lying to you, so please punch them... even if they're European. In which case, punch them harder.

And in the world of memes that have died, but people apparently haven't gotten the memo yet: the words "internets" and "interwebs" haven't been funny for at least six months.

Thank you and good day.

2 comments:

robbievgb said...

I actually was unaware of this...I feel quite foolish.

Nick said...

Fool!

Nah... it's cool.