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I think the spelling as 'Windoze' is a cynical comment on the time taken from power-on to a usable state. I hope for cheesy.mike's sake that Microsoft's enthusiastic and very capable lawyers don't read his post...superscaper wrote: »... which is less user friendly than Windows (I think it's still spelled that way, not with a "ze" :rolleyes: ).
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I think the spelling as 'Windoze' is a cynical comment on the time taken from power-on to a usable state.
I know, it just irks me, in the same way people use M$ instead of MS. It was the kind of thing I did when it was fashionable to be anti Microsoft/Bill Gates when I was about 14/15. I grew out of it though."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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Is it me, or could this site do with a chat room?0
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It would seem that it is still regarded as 'clever' in some circles among the 'teenagers who still know everything'. (I believe the recent word is 'cool', although it may be 'kool' or 'kewl', owing to a dirth of spelling lessons...)superscaper wrote: »I know, it just irks me, in the same way people use M$ instead of MS. It was the kiind of thing I did when it was fashionable to be anti Microsoft/Bill Gates when I was about 14/15. I grew out of it though.0 -
It would seem that it is still regarded as 'clever' in some circles among the 'teenagers who still know everything'. (I believe the recent word is 'cool', although it may be 'kool' or 'kewl', owing to a dirth of spelling lessons...)
I've even heard of "book" being used as a synonym because it comes up first in predictive text when typing "cool". :rolleyes:
(I see what Zahc means about a chat room :rotfl: )"She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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It would seem that it is still regarded as 'clever' in some circles among the 'teenagers who still know everything'. (I believe the recent word is 'cool', although it may be 'kool' or 'kewl', owing to a dirth of spelling lessons...)
They've moved on from cool.
It's phat."Boonowa tweepi, ha, ha."0 -
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