• @[email protected]
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    632 months ago

    At work I see more and more people call their computers “labtops” instead of “laptops”. A Michael wave doesn’t surprise me.

      • Farid
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        72 months ago

        Dang, that labtop is so old it has a dialup modem built-in.

        • Cousin Mose
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          When I was a kid we had a Compaq Presario 9500 that came preinstalled with voicemail software that supported having multiple voicemail boxes with speech recognition (c. 1995).

          I really thought that was going to be the future and wanted my parents to use it so bad at the time. 😅

          • Farid
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            32 months ago

            It still might be, don’t give up hope!

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      Wot. That’s crazy. “Labtop” is harder to pronounce (minimally so but still) with voiced b immediately followed by voiceless t. Everything I know about linguistics (not that much, tbh) tells me that, if anything, a thing called “labtop” should over time evolve to be called “laptop”*, because it’s easier on the speaker with voiceless p and t.

      ^* … maybe even lappop…?^

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        Yeah it blew me away too. I had thought I’d heard a b sound a few times while talking to people but it wasn’t until someone sent in their device with a note attached that I realized it was a real thing. I’ve seen it a few more times since then (email, etc)

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        32 months ago

        Clearly something is pushing in the direction of voiced instead. The ultimate form is presumably “lambdop.”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      52 months ago

      It is interesting how some terms over time are mispronounced and spelled incorrectly. And those doing it have no clue as to the actual term and how it is spelled

  • @[email protected]
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    242 months ago

    Michael wave is one of those terms I’ve started using just to see if people will notice or address that it’s wrong. Like asking someone to pass the Parmesan cheese but calling it the paramecium cheese/paracetamol cheese/Paris Olympian cheese/parenthetical cheese

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      102 months ago

      I would suggest illiteracy, yet they were able to write the note. One ad for appliances, a trip through an appliance section in a store…heck, it’s probably spelled out on the actual microwave itself and would show someone how it’s spelled.

      I’d suggest it’s deliberately misspelled for effect, but the number of people who keep wrecking basic words like “could of”, too/to, there/their/they’re despite there being plenty of correct examples to read in daily life is far too high for me to assume someone wouldn’t be ignorant, willfully or otherwise.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    182 months ago

    As a veteran dumper of useful stuff in the street, this is missing a magical word:

    WORKS!

    This is especially important during the age of CRT monitors since mischief-makers are glad to assume otherwise and smash the tube.

    This magic word makes stuff disappear twice as fast.

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    142 months ago

    I know we should all be used to it by now but it’s crazy to me that Daewoo makes everything from heavy equipment to container ships to cars to microwaves. Imagine having a refrigerator with a Chrysler badge on it.

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      112 months ago

      Hitachi is another another. Hydraulic excavators, air conditioners, elevators, vibrators, and ultrasound machines (for when you trade the vibrator in for the real thing. Either way they have a product for you).

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        82 months ago

        Philips makes everything from TVs to vital life or death monitoring equipment to barbeque grills.

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      As a kid, my family’s first VCR was a Daewoo. Imagine my surprise when we passed some road construction and I saw the Daewoo excavators and other heavy machinery. Later on, a girl in my highschool class had a Daewoo car. That one blew my mind even more for some reason.

      edit: forgot a word

  • St3alth
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    132 months ago

    Heee heeee ding !

    “Dinner is ready”

  • Sparky
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    122 months ago

    Ok that’s a pretty cool design for a microwave tho

  • Flying SquidM
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    62 months ago

    Can’t properly spell “microwave,” can properly spell “Michael?”