What's a tech term you hate?

[IPD]

Pound-Me2?

[gamerdude35]

11 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Hashtags is just a cringe term overall, but it's especially bad IMO when people refer to this symbol, #, in a non-social-media context (such as in a phone number, sharp symbols in music etc) as a hashtag.

When someone says the word hashtag in an IRL conversation it makes my blood curl. The same goes when someone says LOL out loud. Both of them are murder inducing.

[BionicSeaSerpent]

17 hours ago, Needfuldoer said:

If anything, GNOME 2 was a cheap MacOS knockoff. Apple’s been using more or less the same desktop paradigm since the early 80s. 

it really feels like after 3 they decided to copy. thats all i'm really going to add here

[Bombastinator]

On 2/7/2022 at 10:50 AM, Mel0nMan said:

Hashtags is just a cringe term overall, but it's especially bad IMO when people refer to this symbol, #, in a non-social-media context (such as in a phone number, sharp symbols in music etc) as a hashtag.

The problem is the thing was never really adequately named.  Asperand  is barely even a recognized word. 

[IPD]

1 hour ago, Bombastinator said:

The problem is the thing was never really adequately named.  AMPERSAND is barely even a recognized word. 

FTFY

 

It is if you are my people.

[Avocado Diaboli]

22 minutes ago, IPD said:

FTFY

 

It is if you are my people.

Asperand refers to the @-symbol.

[GeorgeMKane]

On 2/7/2022 at 10:50 AM, Mel0nMan said:

Hashtags is just a cringe term overall, but it's especially bad IMO when people refer to this symbol, #, in a non-social-media context (such as in a phone number, sharp symbols in music etc) as a hashtag.

They used that on Cobra Kai a few times... I think Johnny Lawrence said something like "Hashbrown that" and I was just like 

 

[Bombastinator]

3 hours ago, Avocado Diaboli said:

Asperand refers to the @-symbol.

Yeah, but all of those have various levels of problems. @&#, all of em.  Ampersand is the least confusing one that way.

[Bombastinator]

7 hours ago, GeorgeMKane said:

They used that on Cobra Kai a few times... I think Johnny Lawrence said something like "Hashbrown that" and I was just like 

 

I would sauté it then I suppose, which likely isn’t what would be wanted.

[HanZie82]

12 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

The problem is the thing was never really adequately named.  Asperand  is barely even a recognized word. 

11 hours ago, IPD said:

FTFY

 

It is if you are my people.

 

Asperand does not exist. (at least its not in the dictionary, it is however used exactly like this but meaning the @ sign)
But the ampersand is just the and symbol;  🙴, 🙵🙲, 🙳,

 

The # is called the Number sign or Sharp sign. Or equal & parallel sign if you're more mathematical.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

 

^{If you try and correct people make sure its done right and you show some evidence making it easier to believe. (or to fact check, as no-one including me is infallible.)}

[IPD]

And here I thought we called that the "ad symbol", since @ is literally just a conglomeration of the letters A and D...but idk.  I guess somewhere between AD and greek AE, someone split the difference at came up with AT.

[GeorgeMKane]

18 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

I would sauté it then I suppose, which likely isn’t what would be wanted.

At first it was like okay, but then he did it again. I was like oh no. lol!