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It's akin to calling a Value Village or other donation store "goodwill". Goodwill went out of business in my province years ago, but my mother still has a goodw
by frosted-flakes 5y ago
It's akin to calling a Value Village or other donation store "goodwill". Goodwill went out of business in my province years ago, but my mother still has a goodwill pile (stuff to be donated), even though she'll bring it to Value Village, Salvation Army, or Talize.
In other words, there's nothing wrong with it.
- lucgommans 5y agoFor what it's worth, the title did confuse me. What the author seems to mean is audio files as opposed to physical media, not the MP3 format in any specific way. I thought it would be a technical discussion of the MP3 format when I clicked the thread. Your example seems much harder to misunderstand in typical contexts so I'm not sure the comparison really works. (Then to add to the confusion, the article starts with: ``by “MP3s” I mean any fixed digital documents of audio. So, by “MP3s,” I also mean WAV files, and FLAC, and ALAC, etc. Actually, I specifically don’t mean WAV`` err so what's it gonna be...) Of course, I do see your point in general. It's like cryptography vs. cryptocurrency (crypto=?) or some people objecting to the media's use of the word "hacker" to mean "criminal as applied to the digital domain". Those battles are lost and that's just how the language evolved: everyone knows that crypto in an investment context doesn't refer to public key encryption and that hackers on the news don't mean painters (reference: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html). But for MP3s, in this particular case, I think the author caused more confusion than clarity.
- gnabgib 5y agoThis goodwill?: https://www.goodwill.org/ https://www.goodwill.org/
- frosted-flakes 5y agoYes.