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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga to VideoTape - Can it be done?
Message-ID: <4130@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 20:51:04 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <6309@crash.cts.com> dak@pro-graphics.cts.com
(DAK Productions) writes:

>It is interesting that the "genloc" is needed to output video. Simply because
                                                  ^^^^^^
>there is no such device as a genloc. Genloc is a VERB not a NOUN.

While we're picking grammatical nits, in my opinion (and still,
thankfully, that of a number of dictionaries), "output" is a NOUN
not a VERB.  It's but one example of the growing tendency to force
nouns into service as verbs because either people think it sounds
like cool computer jargon or they're unable to think of a proper
word.  May I suggest one of the following:

        create
        generate
        produce
        write (none of this pompous "authoring" garbage!)
        send
        display
        print

Some are more appropriate than others in various situations.
Consult your local thesaurus for more.

Sorry for the waste of bandwidth, but this really sets my teeth on
edge, and I've already explained the difference between "baud" and
"bits per second" to the locals.  (Next time I'll explain why a
so-called "DB-9" connector is actually a DE-9. :-)

BTW the technical information was great.  Thanks!

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
Anyone who thinks the government doesn't tax the very air we breathe
has never had a SCUBA tank refilled.