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Fantastic post! But can we please, please stop calling power point presentations "decks".
by jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
Fantastic post! But can we please, please stop calling power point presentations "decks".
- linkingday 8y agoSure, but we can't call them PowerPoint presentations either.
- asdff 8y agoHow about "Presentation?"
- Antonio123123 8y agoPresentation is the process. You can have a presentation without using a deck. The term you are looking for is Slideshow.
- SkyMarshal 8y agoHonest question, what’s the difference?
- icelancer 8y agoHe is just grumpy and doesn't like the term, for whatever reason.
- asdff 8y agoNo one knows what the hell you are talking about with the word "deck."
- ralmeida 8y agoIt comes from "slide decks", because not too far long ago, presentations were made with actual 35mm transparencies which were slid into a projector, and were carried in decks.
- jaxtellerSoA 8y agoThis is correct. "Hey are you working on that deck?" "Yeah, I just need to run to Home Depot and get some more nails" A deck is that wooden structure on the back of your house. A power point presentation is an electronic file made up of "slides". There is also a "deck of cards", but no one calls a deck of cards just a "deck". Maybe if they called it a "deck of slides", or you know just use a term that makes sense, like "presentation".
- prewett 8y agoI've always disliked it because a "deck" is stack of small, flat things, canonically, playing cards. A set of PowerPoint slides is not small (they are usually wall sized) and they are not an actual thing I can carry around. I think of a set of PowerPoint slides as a “PowerPoint presentation” or “PowerPoint file”. I guess I could let “slide deck” slide, because a stack of slides would be “deck”-sized, and I assume that sales presentations back in The Day actually were slides of some sort. To me, a "sales deck" (current title is "The greatest sales deck I've ever seen") implies a stack of playing-card sized marketing material, or a joking reference to your stack of business cards.
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