hey everbody
i made a new video. it's about how stereo sound works on vinyl records.
please provide me with positive reinforcement for holding back on chastising the youngins for continuing to call records "vinyls"
also please never ever do that you heathens
anyway, here's the linky-dink (i'm giving you, like, 10 minutes early access!)
@hunterking I'm becoming less prescriptivist as I age but this one MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE because "vinyl" is a /material/ and not all records are vinyl!
Besides just that, it's like calling a pair of jeans "a denim" or your computer a "personal"
I'm OK with saying "I have that on vinyl" but the thing itself is not a vinyl. It is a record, and I will unendingly grumble about this at least in my head.
@TechConnectify ok I do think you're fighting the better fight.
The "plural of vinyl is vinyl" attitude feels misguided to me. "Listen to this vinyl I found at a garage sale" still sounds stupid, and most people I know that collected records before the revival just called them records.
The funny thing to me is that this is a silly example of a point I mostly agree with you about.
There are two kinds of nouns in English. It seems there's a few different things you could call them, but I call them "mass" and "count". "Vinyl" the material is a mass noun, and doesn't become plural when you have more of it. "Record" is a count noun, and does become plural.
"This" applies to both, though. Check it out: "This water is clean." "This cat is fluffy."
@TechConnectify @hunterking It's just synecdoche...
@punster @TechConnectify @hunterking "rubber" could refer to either an "eraser" (US english term) or a condom (i forget if rubber is also used in US english, IIRC it is in UK english for a condom)
i am very bad at phrasing things
though people don't call a knife a "steel" unless they got a great deal (ha)
@spv @TechConnectify @hunterking it's the honing rod, not the knife itself, that people call "a steel". That leads to this kind of funny example of a "ceramic steel": https://www.chefsarmoury.com/products/chefs-armoury-10-black-ceramic-steel
There's also an iron, the clothing tool, which generally isn't even made of iron any more!
@Riedler @TechConnectify @hunterking
#pedantry it's the vapor that burns and provides the motion.
Also it's a shortening of "gasoline" afaik.
@TechConnectify @hunterking Back in the early 90s, I was in a record shop (a place where you bought music but didn't actually have any records) and asked for a particular album.
The clerk laughed and laughed at the word "album" because they only had cds, not "albums", not understanding that an album is a collection of items and not its physical form.
@mikej @TechConnectify I've definitely seen "record albums" thrown around by older people advertising garage sales.
It's kind of fun how this stuff happens, like how VCRs have somehow become "VHS players"
@hunterking @TechConnectify In addition to record albums, there are "photo albums".
When referring to music, "album" feels the most form agnostic. Vinyl, CD, mp3, tape, as long as it is an associated collection of "tracks" (another potentially troublesome word.)
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