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.