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Jul. 13th, 2001 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronWe have a new video! Richard picked it up in Oxford Street. It matches our new television and does NTSC playback, so we can get tapes from the US and Japan.
I was wondering if there are any other things where the same name is used both for the device and for the thing you play it on. I mean, we say "video" for both the cassette and the player, whereas it's "CD" and "CD player" and "tape" and "tape recorder". It's rather odd, that.
I was wondering if there are any other things where the same name is used both for the device and for the thing you play it on. I mean, we say "video" for both the cassette and the player, whereas it's "CD" and "CD player" and "tape" and "tape recorder". It's rather odd, that.
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Re: the same thing!
That's scary.
I use album when I'm talking about CDs too. Well, you need to distinguish between a CD with a lot of songs on (an album) and a CD with only a few songs on (a single)!
Re: the same thing!
Date: 2001-07-16 02:47 am (UTC)Roxy641
Bi the way,
Now I know that I'm old! LOL ;-)
(Was what I meant to type before, NOT
Know I know I'm OLD.
Noticed this typo as soon as I posted (isn't it
always the way? ha ha)