Let's play a game.
Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...
Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.
@DrPen I love how Adobe has their entire page on "don't turn it into a verb" to maintain their trademark but they still absolutely want it synonymous to some extent for monopolistic purposes.
As much as I love "potatochop" as the goofy term for editing maybe it's time for me to alter that.
@KayOhtie @DrPen As a bonus, especially for those of us that use AWS tools regularly: it's a fun and useful exercise to translate their nomenclature (like VPCs, IFWs, and various rules engines) back into their IETF standards: https://www.rfc-archive.org
I regularly and almost-religiously do this, because I refuse to let Amazon own the terms under which internet connectivity operates.
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