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Aileron, strafe (different meaning), howitzer - would all have come to me from reading WW2 stories or watching black and white movies in the 80s. Azimuth, spac
by pbhjpbhj 5y ago
Aileron, strafe (different meaning), howitzer - would all have come to me from reading WW2 stories or watching black and white movies in the 80s.
Azimuth, space.
Degauss, TVs
Checksum I think probably from Linux installs (around the millennium).
Teraflop, supercomputers.
Shemale ... hmmm, never saw it, but The Crying Game (TV show) I think would be the source for me.
Conclusion, they're not gaming words you're just a gamer?
- Talanes 5y ago> Conclusion, they're not gaming words you're just a gamer? The claim wasn't "originated from video-games" it was "related to games." More broadly, aside from the direct technology terms, most of those are the sort of words that you only encounter in media. Videogames are a medium that tends to stretch for more words to describe things (as do novels, compared to snappier media like film/music/tv), so it's a very likely point of first exposure for those of us young enough to have grown up with them.