I can't count how many times I have had to correct my parents when they call my blu rays tapes. I keep having to tell them vhs tapes when out a while ago and it would be more accurate to call them discs. Am I the only person with parents who still call dvds/blu rays tapes?
shareAs long as they're not pretending to be experts on the subject, give them a break. If your parents are mostly non-technical and grew up in an era when gramophone records were the only disk-based medium, it probably took a lot for them to learn about "tapes".
Of course you can have hours of fun by asking them to rewind the DVD... :D
Nope, my parents call them tapes too. If your parents are paying to keep a roof over your head, as Speed said, cut them some slack.
shareNo, I hear people do it all the time. The worst is when I'm recording something and people say I am "taping". Very irritating.
sharehaha, I have the same problem as you, just in a different way.
My mom calls gigabits jiggabites
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JURASSIC WORLD. The park is open, July 2015.
Actually the "jig" pronunciation is also correct, if not popular.
Well, my school teachers (especially the more "senior" ones) used to call VHS tapes "films", right up to the time I graduated in 2002. Despite the district having phased out 8/16mm films by about 1993 or '94. (35mm still filmstrips held on for a good while longer.)
Yes, and my grandmother still calls her audio CDs "records".
Old habits are hard to break.
Lighten Up...
The worst is when I'm recording something and people say I am "taping". Very irritating.
Oh my god. What. Ass. Holes.
Anyone here mentions Hotel California dies before the first line clears his lips.
I gotta go along with this. I have something in dvr I'm watching and I say it's something I "taped". What's the BFD? I should say I'm watching something I dvr'd? How is that better?
The Grammys, Billboards and many more of these trophy shows still call it 'Album' of the Year. Someone should start a letter-writing campaign!
oops, sorry...I mean a twitter rant.