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Does presentation "deck" not come from when presentations were piles of slide cards? A "deck" of slide cards? Resembling a deck of cards? Do you also go into s
by dag11 2y ago
Does presentation "deck" not come from when presentations were piles of slide cards? A "deck" of slide cards? Resembling a deck of cards?
Do you also go into skateboard shops with this rant when they refer to their boards as decks?
Edit: Actually I don't care, this is just normal (and wrong) Internet Pedantry™ but I'm just taken aback by how out of place and violent it is!
- LegitShady 2y agowhere do you buy your slide cards? they don't exist. its not a deck.
- arcticfox 2y agodefinition 5 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoI was having some bad mental health last week and I noticed myself wanting to drop more zingers like that during that time. I got really cynical! Luckily I got over the illness that gave me fatigue and did a big bike ride yesterday. That helped a lot!
- tempest_ 2y agoIn this case I would assume it is from someone who has never looked at an actual slide or slide projector or knows that the software terminology is rooted in things that came before it.
- infecto 2y agoNot only that but with so much passion. Why? Slides have been called decks for at least 15-20 years.
- DougBTX 2y agoThere is literally a whole bunch of people very focused on narrow definitions. It seems like cognitive dissonance trying to square the idea that a dog which can fetch a ball is intelligent but a computer which can write poetry isn’t.
- hitpointdrew 2y ago>Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from? Its coming from common sense, which seems to be forgone these days. Just because something is, common, accepted, written in stone, written in the fucking dictionary doesn’t mean it’s correct. There is no logical argument for calling electronic presentations "decks", period. Go back to overhead projectors, what were those called cards? No they were called transparencies. No one ever said "Hand me that deck of transparencies", no they would have called it stack, not a deck. So what happened is one day some high ranking jack-ass in suit called it a "deck" because they thought it made them sound more intelligent than they actually are, and no one in the room had the balls to say "What the fuck did you just call the power point?" So here we are, with idiots parroting the useless business jargon it has now become "accepted", and written the fucking dictionary. If some moron can start a trend and get idiotic business jargon into the general lexicon, them maybe this moron can get it out.
- Latty 2y agoDo you also refuse to call music albums "albums"? The etymology is the exact same thing. Terms stick as formats change, that's the English language as it is used and it's not new or wrong.
- jjgreen 2y agoUgh, "albums" are Genesis, Yes or other dreary AoR; the cool kids listen(ed) to LPs ...
- hitpointdrew 2y ago>The etymology is the exact same thing. Terms stick as formats change What etymology? In the overhead projector days they were called transparencies (not cards), and you would have said "a stack of transparencies", not a deck. Deck is a new made-up business jargon.
- Latty 2y agoNaming things by analogy. "This wallet of records is similar to a photo album." is no different to "These slides are similar to a deck of cards." All words are made-up. You can not like the word if you don't like it, but pretending it's somehow wrong is absurd and just you trying to claim some kind of authority for your opinion.