8th January 2004, 9:18 PM
asm, don't say words anymore. :D It's just that I mentioned your very thing already!
Hmm, so apparently it HAS become an issue in some places. Never heard it that way myself, as I said. Odd. Then again it's only said by the clueless. They'll die out eventually :D.
Interchangable referenses eh? Never heard anyone call them all Playstations, and I'm surprised anyone would call all of them XBoxes (really, how'd that happen?). As for Nintendo, I guess not all the people who called them all that have died yet. Oh well... As I said, generally those who don't know or care to learn all the names of the systems around here, the casuals, the parents, the rest, just call them "systems".
Example: "Could you put one of your systems in the living room so one of the kids could have something to play?"
Hmm, so apparently it HAS become an issue in some places. Never heard it that way myself, as I said. Odd. Then again it's only said by the clueless. They'll die out eventually :D.
Interchangable referenses eh? Never heard anyone call them all Playstations, and I'm surprised anyone would call all of them XBoxes (really, how'd that happen?). As for Nintendo, I guess not all the people who called them all that have died yet. Oh well... As I said, generally those who don't know or care to learn all the names of the systems around here, the casuals, the parents, the rest, just call them "systems".
Example: "Could you put one of your systems in the living room so one of the kids could have something to play?"
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)