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, 5 replies)

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)