When A Geek Learns English
When I think about it, it's funny how I usually learn English words the wrong way. Usually people learn the most common meaning of a word first, and then discover the alternative meanings later on. However, having started using computer before I even knew the meaning of "attend", there are many words where I learnt the secondary meaning before its primary meaning.
- Menu: The bar on top of each program.
- Surf: To go online and browse web sites.
- Explorer: Something you use to view your computer's files or the Internet.
- Desktop: The starting screen of the computer.
- Folder: A hierarchy of the computer file system where you can use to categorize and organize files.
- Outlook: Something you use to send or receive email.
- Macro: A script that could be run with a document or spreadsheet and was a common way of spreading virus.
- Virtual: Online.
- Extension: The part of filename after the dot (.exe, .doc etc)
- Setup: A program used to install software.
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*faints*
sir tube?
lol...*no comment*
well, i laz time also pronouce sir-duub.
I'm sorry that I can't help but to laugh at your frank confession of pronouncing the word "setup". Haha... :P
Interesting...
Considering our "parallel" development of interest in computer and Internet back in those days, it's weird that I could only relate to a handful of experience that you listed here.
When people say "surf" the Internet those days, I couldn't help but conjuring the halcyon images of people surfing in the sea next to a beach. Perhaps in this context, we are surfing the sea of information :P
I, however, did pronounce setup in the same way as you did for a couple of years!
Don't lar laugh. Everyone pronounces thing wrongly before once in a while mar. I once heard an angmoh pronounces rendang as rent-dang. :P
Eric: Good on you. :) I guess one of the reasons (for my unique experience) is that I started having contact with computer since standard 1 and started using it regularly since ~standard 4, and then at that time I didn't even know the meaning of an axe yet.
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