Disks! CDs! and other types of media...
All get called, by a certain generation... "tapes"

Get a CD software update from Sage? "Just upload the tapes for Sage would you?"

It gets better... There's no such thing as a USB memory stick. No. It's a "Saving Pen"

There's more of these, I just can't remember them right now... meh!
(Roger Moore's Right Eyebrow saw your mum on chatroulette on, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:34, 15 replies)

I mentioned somewhere else
that I still "tape" off the telly, either using a DVD recorder or the Sky+ box.
It's just easier than saying "I'll box that" or "I'll disc you a copy".
(greatoldone Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl f'tagn, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:42, closed)

me too
Mind you, I still call the remote control a 'channel-changer' and the cinema is 'Lumiere Brothers patented magic-lantern show"
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:40, closed)

Surely the modern expression is "skyplus"
As in "I forgot to skyplus it", "I'm out tonight so I'll have to skyplus it"...
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 12:24, closed)

You are a civil servant
Working in an office full of dinosaurs. AICMFP.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:45, closed)

Good grief...
I got out of that a long time ago... they were worse, they used punch cards!
(Roger Moore's Right Eyebrow saw your mum on chatroulette on, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 16:23, closed)

I have never heard any of the terms which you mentioned

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:47, closed)

People in my work place call a projector “a Light Box”


I find it rather endearing. I’d like to live in a world where we travel in Horseless Carriages and view moving images on the Wireless Visual Telegraph…somebody help me here, there must be languages that work like this rather then inventing new words?
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 12 Apr 2010, 12:47, closed)

I have the same at my place of work
and USB memory sticks are thumb drives, jump drives, pen drives, etc.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:02, closed)

Go back to Latin, it'd suit you....
(caescarna Hell's Roomba, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:03, closed)

Don't the Germans do that sort of thing
though I can't think of an example.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:41, closed)

Well
I was going to suggest German, but this is a dangerous place to me ill informed pronouncements so I kept schtum.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:28, closed)

This reminds me of
Leonard of Quirm from the Discworld books, and his utter lack of imagination when it comes to making names for his inventions. Take his submarine, or as he would say, "The Going Under The Water Safely Device".
( Pretender, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 14:00, closed)

german indeed-
Television is Fernseeapparat, IIRC - a machine for seeing a long way.

but then Television is an amalgam of greek and latin for "distance seeing".
(micky2shoes has more shoes than feet, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 17:48, closed)

I still use 'tapes'
to refer to language-learning audio, in whatever medium. It just seems wrong to say CDs/mp3s in that circumstance.

I've also noticed a bizarre kind of hypercorrection, where people will say "In 1949 Miles Davis released the CD Birth of the Cool" or DVD when they mean video cassette.

Be kind to our older brethren, though - technology moves a lot faster than in their day.
( Pretender, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 13:57, closed)

oooh, wavy lines...
Longman Audio-visual French, published and copyright by Longman Group Limited, 1973
DAAAAAH.
DAAAAAH.
Da-da-da-daaH
Da-da-da-da-da-daaH
Da-da-da-da-da-da de-dah DAAH.

etc.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:50, closed)