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You probably mean a projector (beamer is a German word, not English).

• cyphar 8y ago
  Unrelated, but TIL why the LaTeX package for making presentations is called "beamer". I guess the author is German.
  • majewsky 8y ago
    Yes he is. Both TikZ and Beamer are maintained by Till Tantau of University of Bremen.
• koonsolo 8y ago
  Yes, you are correct (I speak Dutch, not German, but they are very close). In Dutch we use a lot of English words: Computer, keyboard, ... . So when I hear an English sounding 'beamer', I think it's English :). We basically use 'projector' for anything from slide to video projector. But it seems the digital age introduce a new word 'beamer' in our language (and German), that didn't happen in English.
  • auto 8y ago
    Beamer is pronounced just like bimmer, which to most in the US (or at least my part of it) is just a nickname for BMW cars. That said, beamer as the word for projector has that German feel of being “obvious” to it, and is neat.
    • askmike 8y ago
      In Dutch it is pronounced beamer like "Beam[er] me up scotty".
      • koonsolo 8y ago
        yes
    • opless 8y ago
      In the UK beam-er is how we pronounce our nickname for BMW cars.