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The word they're looking for is "file extension name".

by zodiakzz 5y ago

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iamtedd 5y ago
Who are you, Kath Day-Night?
- iamtedd 5y ago
  I wanted to find an example from Kath & Kim, but couldn't find any on Youtube that wasn't just the "Look at moi" set-up to the actual joke. I'm sorry.
pastage 5y ago
This is interesting because compounds are mostly written together in other languages. Never thought about it but file extension name really is a word. Someone replied saying this is three words, but it is not is it? It's an open compound word or maybe a "set phrase", I wanted to call it an idiomatic expression but that was clearly wrong.
- hunter2_ 5y ago
  The Wikipedia articles for "Set phrase" [0] and "Compound (linguistics)" [1] actually don't offer much of a distinction, so it's hard to say which of those is correct. Regardless, a compound with spaces ("open," as you said) is multiple words, not one word. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)
qwerty456127 5y ago
There is no such thing as a file extension name, it's a file name extension. It's called this way because file names could only be 8-byte strings initially and then this was extended with 3 extra byte places. Neither part of the MIME type format even has to match any existing (commonly used) file name extension anyway. E.g. it can be `text/plain`. Even when it does it is just a coincidence (although very common), it actually references the format name (IIRC `image/jpeg` was used even when almost nobody were using `jpeg` for the extension and the convention was to use `jpg`).
- kps 5y ago
  > * file names could only be 8-byte strings initially and then this was extended* At least part of that is not true. The ‘popular’ MS-DOS 8.3 form derives via CP/M from DEC OSes which used 6 character file names and 3 character file types, due to their use of RAD50¹ to fit 3 characters in a 16- or 18-bit word. The type field always existed, so the word ‘extension’ most likely refers to its presentation on the end of the file name, rather than an addition to a previous format. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50

The word they're looking for is "file extension name".

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iamtedd 5y ago

Who are you, Kath Day-Night?

iamtedd 5y ago
I wanted to find an example from Kath & Kim, but couldn't find any on Youtube that wasn't just the "Look at moi" set-up to the actual joke. I'm sorry.

pastage 5y ago

This is interesting because compounds are mostly written together in other languages. Never thought about it but file extension name really is a word. Someone replied saying this is three words, but it is not is it? It's an open compound word or maybe a "set phrase", I wanted to call it an idiomatic expression but that was clearly wrong.

hunter2_ 5y ago
The Wikipedia articles for "Set phrase" [0] and "Compound (linguistics)" [1] actually don't offer much of a distinction, so it's hard to say which of those is correct. Regardless, a compound with spaces ("open," as you said) is multiple words, not one word. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_phrase [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)

qwerty456127 5y ago

There is no such thing as a file extension name, it's a file name extension. It's called this way because file names could only be 8-byte strings initially and then this was extended with 3 extra byte places. Neither part of the MIME type format even has to match any existing (commonly used) file name extension anyway. E.g. it can be `text/plain`. Even when it does it is just a coincidence (although very common), it actually references the format name (IIRC `image/jpeg` was used even when almost nobody were using `jpeg` for the extension and the convention was to use `jpg`).

kps 5y ago
> * file names could only be 8-byte strings initially and then this was extended* At least part of that is not true. The ‘popular’ MS-DOS 8.3 form derives via CP/M from DEC OSes which used 6 character file names and 3 character file types, due to their use of RAD50¹ to fit 3 characters in a 16- or 18-bit word. The type field always existed, so the word ‘extension’ most likely refers to its presentation on the end of the file name, rather than an addition to a previous format. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_RADIX_50