This really irks me...............

muncybob

Some time ago I got into a bit of a sticky situation with a fellow Polkie when I said it irks me that people will call a cd an album. I was wrong of course, the cd is an album of songs just like a book of photos is an album of such. But still, it irks me in my grumpy old age.

The other day I was reading a review in which the reviewer stated he put on a vinyl to evaluate. It's not a freakin' vinyl, man...it's a record!! That would be like saying I'm taking my car to the rubber shop to get some new rubbers.

SIHAB

I feel the same way when someone says flashlight.
It's a TORCH!

msg

Are you British or Canadian?

I never call a record 'a' vinyl. I don't even like using the word 'vinyl' when talking about records. But record, I think, is probably short for recording. So, Vinyl Recording was maybe shortened to Vinyl Record, which would have then been shortened to just Record for many of us.

However...
A Tape Recording of...
A Compact Disc Recording of...
[Crap.] A Vinyl Recording of... (I see where this is going and making the case for that which I despise.)

Tape Recording and Compact Disc Recording were both shortened to Tape or CD. Why would it not, then, be acceptable for Vinyl Recording to be shortened to Vinyl? As in, put on a Tape, CD, or - ack - a Vinyl.

BECAUSE IT JUST ISN'T ACCEPTABLE, THAT'S WHY!


I call CDs CDs, not albums. I use the word album in talking about the collection of songs. Or tracks. Sometimes I've used these terms interchangeably - "I like that CD," or "I have that tape."

And then there's use of the term to note the format - "I have that on CD," or - gag - "on Vinyl."

I'm getting rid of all my V Recordings now just to avoid this.

pitdogg2

Ya'll need to just move on to Mp3 it is much better. They've already tossed out all the unnecessary notes....

Carry on

muncybob

Yea, my wife still refers to recording something on the DVR as "tape that".

jdjohn

msg wrote: »

I never call a record 'a' vinyl.
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And then there's use of the term to note the format - "I have that on CD," or - gag - "on Vinyl."

I definitely don't like "a vinyl", unless vinyl is the descriptor, as in, "a vinyl record". Remember, it could also be OG, "an acetate record".

But I dunno, Scott. I have no problem with "on". "The recording is on tape, on CD, on vinyl, or on my NAS/drive."

All this coming from a guy (me) who still thinks 'Xerox' is a verb. "Lemme Xerox that real quick, and then I'll bring it back to you."

Viking64

That's how I feel when someone says they are going to "film" something with a smart phone.

"Film" is a medium used in motion pictures and photography. The proper terms would be to "record" or "shoot" something. I would even accept "to video something", but NEVER to "film something", unless a film camera was used. And even then...."shoot" is the proper industry term.

I remember some dork telling Tom Araya of Slayer: "Dude! I jam all your tapes!" My level of second-hand embarrassment was legendary.

mhardy6647

collections of recorded music became known as albums in the days of shellac 78 rpm records (or shellacs if you hipsters prefer ). In those days, only a few minutes of music fit on a 10 inch 78 (played with ca. 3 mil stylus, so the groove was, shall we say, phat). Ergo, something like a symphony -- or an opera -- came in an album, containing a bunch of sleeved disks, and (maybe) a libretto or some sort of documentation, typically ensconced in a nicely finished pasteboard or cardstock (think prehistoric "cardboard") slipcase.

When the long-playing 12" microgroove 33-1/3 rpm disks came along (1948), the nomenclature was well established.

Emlyn

I usually just call "vinyls" LPs to avoid confusion. Someone saying they're going to "put on a vinyl" could mean putting on a gimp suit to some people.

mhardy6647

Personally, I gravitate towards the term rekkids.

afterburnt

The heartbreak of first world problems.

aprazer402

Growing up as a teen in the late 60's early 70's we referred to the aforementioned as either records or albums. We'd say, "Did you buy the new Led Zeppelin album?" Might have referred to a 45 as a record. The disk itself was always called a record, never a vinyl. Special places where you bought them were called either "record" or "music" stores. Back then all large department, discount and dime stores all sold records and albums. Baby boomers ya know.

fish357

I refer to any body of work put out by an artist as an album.
It might be a thing from the days when I was working for musicians, but it just feels more... respectful of the energy poured into said plastic disc, tape, record...



I like how this definition refers to an album as a collection. Gives it a more personal feel. Music is personal on many levels, I think.

Tony M

Yup.

And some albums were meant to be listened to as a whole journey / story.

"Tommy" by The Who, comes to mind. Wasn't it all about Tommy?

pitdogg2

Queensryche operation mindcrime
Rush 2112

steveinaz

You guys are kinda picky. Stress kills, learn to chill.

msg

Yeah you guys, chill.
Party at Steve's mancave!

rooftop59

I think we also have to remember that "we" tell Merriam Webster what words mean, not the other way around. If it is commonly used to mean a certain thing, then it becomes a dictionary word or the word gets assigned a new meaning, as in 1.C above...

msg

Like irregardless? Not a word. When used in place of regardless, it ends up a contraction of the point made - a double negative.

rooftop59

msg wrote: »

Like irregardless? Not a word. When used in place of regardless, it ends up a contraction of the point made - a double negative.

That’s because it violates grammatical norms and thus is not allowed in professional or academic writing. If it’s not allowed in professional writing, M-W will almost certainly not include it.

A well-known positive example is “google” used as a verb.

msg

Ah, yes, because of the lower case 'g' in google.

It also irks me when people fail to capitalize numbers where required, like with a house number, for example. Those should be capitalized, just like the first letter of the street.

mrbigbluelight

Or as in the one word that Lenny Bruce used in his one comedy routine.
(For which he was arrested)
In one form the word is a verb.
In other use it is a noun.

I'll have to come back later to reveal that word.

mhardy6647

mrbigbluelight wrote: »

Or as in the one word that Lenny Bruce used in his one comedy routine.
(For which he was arrested)
In one form the word is a verb.
In other use it is a noun.

I'll have to come back later to reveal that word.

Oh. I almost forgot, Cincinnati.
Booger.




https://youtu.be/eaq7DnKf6cI

3' 00"

audioluvr

Hey while we are on this derail, my sister uses the word " unthaw" which bugs the crap out of me.
"Would you like me to unthaw the chicken?"
"It's already unthawed..."
"No it's not! It's still frozen!"
"Frozen is unthawed. Now if you'd like to thaw out the chicken, go right ahead."

kevhed72

I tape shows all the time with my Tivo

msg

Hahaha, these are great!

"I'm hot. I'm gonna turn down the AC."

jdjohn

msg wrote: »

Like irregardless? Not a word. When used in place of regardless, it ends up a contraction of the point made - a double negative.

I think "irrespective" is the word they're meaning to use...but don't.

"I'm sweaty...think I'll jump in shower." Or sometimes 'hop' is used. I really wouldn't advise doing either of those things in a shower.

Nightfall

Kleenex is a brand it's a freaking tissue.

txcoastal1

Nightfall wrote: »

Kleenex is a brand it's a freaking tissue.

So if you have a runny nose and need a tissue and all I have is toilet paper, will you be running to restroom to wipe yourass

msg

msg wrote: »

Like irregardless? Not a word. When used in place of regardless, it ends up a contraction of the point made - a double negative.

Jfc. I've become one of those people.
*contradiction, not contraction.
I might have written that first response on mobile. In Mobile.

Kex

“I could care less.”

No. You meant that you could not care less (couldn’t care less), not that you could, because if you could, then you didn’t mean to say that whatever you were discussing at the time is so unimportant to you that nothing could be less important.