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Do you also go into skateboard shops with this rant when they refer to their boards as decks?
Edit: Actually I don't care, this is just normal (and wrong) Internet Pedantry™ but I'm just taken aback by how out of place and violent it is!
Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?
Its coming from common sense, which seems to be forgone these days. Just because something is, common, accepted, written in stone, written in the fucking dictionary doesn’t mean it’s correct.
There is no logical argument for calling electronic presentations "decks", period.
Go back to overhead projectors, what were those called cards? No they were called transparencies. No one ever said "Hand me that deck of transparencies", no they would have called it stack, not a deck.
So what happened is one day some high ranking jack-ass in suit called it a "deck" because they thought it made them sound more intelligent than they actually are, and no one in the room had the balls to say "What the fuck did you just call the power point?" So here we are, with idiots parroting the useless business jargon it has now become "accepted", and written the fucking dictionary.
If some moron can start a trend and get idiotic business jargon into the general lexicon, them maybe this moron can get it out.
What etymology? In the overhead projector days they were called transparencies (not cards), and you would have said "a stack of transparencies", not a deck.
Deck is a new made-up business jargon.
You can not like the word if you don't like it, but pretending it's somehow wrong is absurd and just you trying to claim some kind of authority for your opinion.
I'm not in tears.
Obviously they are, given how common the usage is. But out of curiosity, why do you feel strongly about this?
Just because something is, common, accepted, or written in stone, doesn’t mean it’s correct.
> But out of curiosity, why do you feel strongly about this?
Because it’s stupid business jargon that no one had the balls to speak up the first time in history when some micro-managing egotistical C-level exec uttered this debauchery. They should have looked at them like they had two heads and said “What the fuck did you just call the power point?”
But no, people just let it slide and now this BS is common place.
Well I am not letting it slide by anymore.
When it comes to language, it sort of does.
> should have looked at them like they had two heads and said “What the fuck did you just call the power point
Presentation decks pre-date PowerPoint. (I think it derives from how a deck of slides resembles a deck of cards?)
Makes more sense to me than tape decks, anyway.
Although I'm usually rather strict on language, this doesn't bother me, because it is not skewing a term but using it effectively with an implied context. Plus, that ship seems to have sailed.
OTOH, despite the ship definitely having sailed and over the horizon, using "impacted" for "affected", "hit", "struck", etc., as opposed to "embedded" (as in an impacted tooth), still grates like grinding gears every single time I hear it, so I can sympathize.
A "Steam Deck" matches none of those for example.
This is a very well understood and established term. I fail to see what you made this comment.
That usage is from cyberpunk. It's from Burning Chrome (1982) by William Gibson. "She took a little simstim deck from her belt and showed me the broken hinge on the cassette cover". What he's describing is similar to the belt pack of the Apple Vision headgear. Gibson's headgear is a headband that transmits into the brain, not clunky goggles.