I was having some bad mental health last week and I noticed myself wanting to drop more zingers like that during that time. I got really cynical! Luckily I got over the illness that gave me fatigue and did a big bike ride yesterday. That helped a lot!
There is literally a whole bunch of people very focused on narrow definitions. It seems like cognitive dissonance trying to square the idea that a dog which can fetch a ball is intelligent but a computer which can write poetry isn’t.
In this case I would assume it is from someone who has never looked at an actual slide or slide projector or knows that the software terminology is rooted in things that came before it.
>Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?
Its coming from common sense, which seems to be forgone these days. Just because something is, common, accepted, written in stone, written in the fucking dictionary doesn’t mean it’s correct.
There is no logical argument for calling electronic presentations "decks", period.
Go back to overhead projectors, what were those called cards? No they were called transparencies. No one ever said "Hand me that deck of transparencies", no they would have called it stack, not a deck.
So what happened is one day some high ranking jack-ass in suit called it a "deck" because they thought it made them sound more intelligent than they actually are, and no one in the room had the balls to say "What the fuck did you just call the power point?" So here we are, with idiots parroting the useless business jargon it has now become "accepted", and written the fucking dictionary.
If some moron can start a trend and get idiotic business jargon into the general lexicon, them maybe this moron can get it out.
Do you also refuse to call music albums "albums"? The etymology is the exact same thing. Terms stick as formats change, that's the English language as it is used and it's not new or wrong.
>The etymology is the exact same thing. Terms stick as formats change
What etymology? In the overhead projector days they were called transparencies (not cards), and you would have said "a stack of transparencies", not a deck.
Naming things by analogy. "This wallet of records is similar to a photo album." is no different to "These slides are similar to a deck of cards." All words are made-up.
You can not like the word if you don't like it, but pretending it's somehow wrong is absurd and just you trying to claim some kind of authority for your opinion.
How did you arrive at this conclusion? 'Deck' seems to be a widely used and accepted term: "Collectively, a group of slides may be known as a slide deck." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_slide
> Obviously they are, given how common the usage is.
Just because something is, common, accepted, or written in stone, doesn’t mean it’s correct.
> But out of curiosity, why do you feel strongly about this?
Because it’s stupid business jargon that no one had the balls to speak up the first time in history when some micro-managing egotistical C-level exec uttered this debauchery. They should have looked at them like they had two heads and said “What the fuck did you just call the power point?”
But no, people just let it slide and now this BS is common place.
Seems the "Deck" in this context has an implied following phrase "of index cards", as in "the deck of index cards containing the salient points in the presentation"?
Although I'm usually rather strict on language, this doesn't bother me, because it is not skewing a term but using it effectively with an implied context. Plus, that ship seems to have sailed.
OTOH, despite the ship definitely having sailed and over the horizon, using "impacted" for "affected", "hit", "struck", etc., as opposed to "embedded" (as in an impacted tooth), still grates like grinding gears every single time I hear it, so I can sympathize.
> A "Steam Deck" matches none of those for example.
That usage is from cyberpunk. It's from Burning Chrome (1982) by William Gibson. "She took a little simstim deck from her belt and showed me the broken hinge
on the cassette cover". What he's describing is similar to the belt pack of the Apple Vision headgear. Gibson's headgear is a headband that transmits into the brain, not clunky goggles.
