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Off-topic forums => Completely Unrelated => Topic started by: DarkFang on 2010-05-27 13:34:31
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Disc:
A disc refers to optical media, such as an audio CD, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, or DVD-Video disc. Some discs are read-only (ROM), others allow you to burn content (write files) to the disc once (such as a CD-R or DVD-R, unless you do a multisession burn), and some can be erased and rewritten over many times (such as CD-RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RAM discs).
All discs are removable, meaning when you unmount or eject the disc from your desktop or Finder, it physically comes out of your computer.
Disk:
A disk refers to magnetic media, such as a floppy disk, the disk in your computer's hard drive, an external hard drive. Disks are always rewritable unless intentionally locked or write-protected. You can easily partition a disk into several smaller volumes, too.
Disks are usually sealed inside a metal or plastic casing (often, a disk and its enclosing mechanism are collectively known as a "hard drive").
So if I see someone use the word disk improperly again, I will correct them. For example, "I'm having trouble with Disk 2 of Final Fantasy VII." It is not disk, it is disc.
Thank you.
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Hmm. I'm quite confused here. What you mean is disc is the cd to run games and disk is the drives in the computers like disk drive. Is that right?
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Hmm. I'm quite confused here. What you mean is disc is the cd to run games and disk is the drives in the computers like disk drive. Is that right?
That is correct.
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Woah! For real? I never knew that. :-o
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informative forum is informative
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informative forum is informative
Faggish person is faggish.
Haha jk. :)
Uncalled for Darkfang.
But this is a handy bit of information.
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informative forum is informative
Faggish person is faggish.
Haha jk. :)
Uncalled for Darkfang.
But this is a handy bit of information.
I don't know what you're talking about. :P
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I think he's talking about your 13 year old sense of humor
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I think he's talking about your 13 year old sense of humor
Serious guy is serious. -_-
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Consider me enlightened.
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Weird, i was just thinking about this :o
*edits post*
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Weird, i was just thinking about this :o
*edits post*
Uh huh. I saw you post disk. :o
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Liar.
:-P
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There are people who don't now the difference between Disk and Disc?!
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There are people who don't now the difference between Disk and Disc?!
I've seen about 5 posts just today with people using them incorrectly.
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Hmm if you take a look at the files inside of the ff8 cd there is a file named DISK2.pak. Just wanted you to know. :)
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Hmm if you take a look at the files inside of the ff8 cd there is a file named DISK2.pak. Just wanted you to know. :)
They are wrong. Square fails.
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The word "disc" comes from the latin word "discus", something which is flat and round.
If it's not flat and round, use "disk". If it is, use "disc".
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Just woke up, it's a public holiday over here, yet I'm... still learning new stuff!!?
Noooooooooooooo!! :oops:
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The word "disc" comes from the latin word "discus", something which is flat and round.
If it's not flat and round, use "disk". If it is, use "disc".
That actually makes more sense. Simple explanation but it explains it much easier. Never knew one different letter and it means another thing.
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Bull.
English spelling systems have been based on nothing other than:
* Common usage, and
* Mutual intelligibility
These have been the only arguments Prescriptivists have ever been able to hang on to. So when a case like this appears, where the disc<>disk confusion manages to maintain
- continuity with common usage, and
- intelligibility despite ambiguity
There's really no argument whatsoever for upholding the matter. Please remember that English has only had a standardized spelling system since the mid-Eighteenth Century, and that was only devised for the sake of preventing confusion and verbal ambiguity. There is no other solid, compelling, or even rational argument for linguistic prescription otherwise.
As it happens, you're wrong anyway. There has never been a semantic difference between disc and disk, and all hard drives contain platters of thin, circular 'discs' anyway. It was purely by chance that the first floppy developers used the term 'diskette', and that Philips chose 'disc' when trademarking 'Compact Discs'. These have created precedents and de facto habits of spelling in certain fields, but this is quite something off an immutable matter of 'right and wrong'.
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Bull.
English spelling systems have been based on nothing other than:
* Common usage, and
* Mutual intelligibility
These have been the only arguments Prescriptivists have ever been able to hang on to. So when a case like this appears, where the disc<>disk confusion manages to maintain
- continuity with common usage, and
- intelligibility despite ambiguity
There's really no argument whatsoever for upholding the matter. Please remember that English has only had a standardized spelling system since the mid-Eighteenth Century, and that was only devised for the sake of preventing confusion and verbal ambiguity. There is no other solid, compelling, or even rational argument for linguistic prescription otherwise.
As it happens, you're wrong anyway. There has never been a semantic difference between disc and disk, and all hard drives contain platters of thin, circular 'discs' anyway. It was purely by chance that the first floppy developers used the term 'diskette', and that Philips chose 'disc' when trademarking 'Compact Discs'. These have created precedents and de facto habits of spelling in certain fields, but this is quite something off an immutable matter of 'right and wrong'.
In computing terms he is right. Disk is Hard Drives, Floppy Disks (all variants i believe.) I think Zip Disk(c)s are spelled with a K over C as well.
All optical media (at least so far) is a Disc, As for exactly WHY that is. I assume your answers above are correct. But in English (American anyway) it is indeed Disc for CD, DVD, BD. and Disk for Hard drives, Floppy, Zip. Am i missing any in this category? ;P
OH! please note, I am just going by labels here, being TRUELY correct i'm sure i'm wrong, But to me it's like called a Blu-ray and Blue-ray. Though "blue" is the more correct way, it's labeled "Blu" Unless BLU is an acronym haha ;D
my 2 cents
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no offence Darkfang, but i just don't think this is something to get so worked up about, on this sight, we're all talking about game discs anyway, no point in getting all upset if someone makes a simple mistake.
with that out of the way, WHO WANTS CAKE !!?? ^_^
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No offence DarkFang, but I just don't think this is something to get so worked up about. On this site, we're all talking about game discs anyway, no point in getting all upset if someone makes a simple mistake.
With that out of the way, who wants cake!!?? ^_^
I'm a grammar Nazi. It's my job.
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I'm a grammar Nazi. It's my job.
^_^ whats the pay, sounds like a helluva job
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I'm a grammar Nazi. It's my job.
^_^ What's the pay? Sounds like a hell of a job.
It puts bread on the table.
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I'm a grammar Nazi. It's my job.
^_^ What's the pay? Sounds like a hell of a job.
It puts bread on the table.
Is there any meat in addition to the bread?
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I'm a grammar Nazi. It's my job.
^_^ What's the pay? Sounds like a hell of a job.
It puts bread on the table.
Is there any meat in addition to the bread?
I don't have to edit your sentence. :o
Yes there's some chicken involved once in a while.
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I'm a grammar Nazi. It's my job.
^_^ What's the pay? Sounds like a hell of a job.
It puts bread on the table.
Is there any meat in addition to the bread?
I don't have to edit your sentence. :o
Yes there's some chicken involved once in a while.
I try to keep myself in good standing when dealing with grammar.
I would also like to note that I rather enjoy chicken. Might I inquire as to its method of preparation?
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot a question mark.
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I'm a grammar Nazi. It's my job.
^_^ What's the pay? Sounds like a hell of a job.
It puts bread on the table.
Is there any meat in addition to the bread?
I don't have to edit your sentence. :o
Yes there's some chicken involved once in a while.
I try to keep myself in good standing when dealing with grammar.
I would also like to note that I rather enjoy chicken. Might I inquire as to its method of preparation?
EDIT: Sorry, I forgot a question mark.
I usually prepare my chicken by slapping a nice meaty penis on it then letting the juices marinate it for a while.
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>.< you guys are making me hungry as hell!
anyone want pizza? :P
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I usually prepare my chicken by slapping a nice meaty penis on it then letting the juices marinate it for a while.
you guys are making me hungry as hell!
What is this!? I don't even...
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I usually prepare my chicken by slapping a nice meaty penis on it then letting the juices marinate it for a while.
you guys are making me hungry as hell!
What is this!? I don't even...
that was actually my brother, i forgot to close this before i went upstairs, god i hate dat lil bastard sometimes
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I usually prepare my chicken by slapping a nice meaty penis on it then letting the juices marinate it for a while.
you guys are making me hungry as hell!
What is this!? I don't even...
That was actually my brother. I forgot to close the window before I went upstairs. God I hate that little bastard sometimes.
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Haha. I think I like your little brother, actually. Got a sense of humor :lol:
Oh, wait...
There are Grammar Nazis in here...
He has got a sense of humor.
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TT_TT you grammar natzi's always be picking on me :P
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It pays nothing (except time out of his busy schedule to fix your spelling errors). I'd have to agree with Bosola on this one, after all the English language itself is made up entirely of public perception since we have no "official language anyway" here how can we determine anything is official...?
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Slang is almost its own language by now after all