Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucselx!crash!pro-graphics.cts.com!bobl From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury, SysAdmin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga to VideoTape - Can it be done? Message-ID: <6386@crash.cts.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 06:56:17 GMT Sender: root@crash.cts.com Lines: 41 In-Reply-To: message from lshaw@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu >>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. > >Don't you know that there isn't a single word in the English language >that can't be verbed? :-) :-) :-) :-) Hmm..I think the original message wasn't nitpicking grammar. It was nitpicking terminology. The Amiga community has this name for any overlay device that is incorrect when you are talking Video jargon. Genlock is a verb that applies to what is done to a video signal. Genlock is not a device. You genlock a device to an incomming video signal. You genlock your Amiga to an incomming video signal. You do not put a Genlock on your Amiga. You genlock 2 video cameras so that they are in sync. And so on. Of course I am not an engineer so I don't know the precise ways in which genlocking of signals is accomplished so some of my examples may be just a little off. (This is to reduce the amount of flames from the nitpicking engineers of the world who will most likely find a flaw in some of the above examples) -- Bob ______ Pro-Graphics BBS "It's better than a sharp stick in the eye!" ________ UUCP: crash!pro-graphics!bobl | Pro-Graphics: 908/469-0049 ARPA/DDN: pro-graphics!bobl@nosc.mil | America Online: Graphics3d Internet: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com | CompuServe: RIP _________ ___________ Raven Enterprises 25 Raven Avenue Piscataway, NJ 08854