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> "real" analog Best oxymoron I've seen in a while ("analog" literally means "simulating something else")
by InitialLastName 7y ago
> "real" analog
Best oxymoron I've seen in a while ("analog" literally means "simulating something else")
- coldtea 7y agoOxymorons aren't based on etymology, but on meaning. The casual and dictionary meaning of analogue today, in the context of vinyl and music technologies, is the opposite of digital (and technically that which "uses a continuous physical variable like voltage to represent data") not that which is simulating something else. So "real analogue" just means "mechanism based on the actual use of a continuous physical variable like voltage to represent data" (as opposed to a digital version of such).
- martyvis 7y agoAudio recording and reproduction always has to be an analog of the original vibrating air molecules ( unless you can somehow perpetuate that vibrating air by storing it in a jar or somesuch)