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I hate how people refer to email addresses and email accounts as "emails". Half the time, I don't know if they're referring to addresses, accounts, or messages.
by subsection1h 11y ago
I hate how people refer to email addresses and email accounts as "emails". Half the time, I don't know if they're referring to addresses, accounts, or messages. I'm not looking forward to when these people start referring to phone numbers as "phones".
- Grue3 11y ago>I'm not looking forward to when these people start referring to phone numbers as "phones". In my native language (Russian) people already do (and have done long before email existed). In fact, I don't see why that would be unusual. When faxes were used, everyone used to refer to fax numbers as "fax", right?
- dheera 11y agoOn that note, I hate how Hamiltonian, Jacobian, and Lagrangian are nouns while Brownian, Newtonian, and Freudian are adjectives. It's about time we standardize our language and namespace conventions so these things are clearer.
- DyslexicAtheist 11y agoforgot Orwellian: "1984" has a strong theme of standardizing namespace conventions to make things clearer. They call it "Newspeak". A terrifying idea.
- dheera 11y agoI think the terrifying part of Newspeak is more in brainwashing people by removing certain words from vocabulary. Standardized namespace conventions isn't scary, and many human languages are close to standardized. English is just a mess. Spanish is a lot better in this respect (e.g. all verbs end in -er, -ir, -ar, period).