Questions for English Majors

Wed Jan 19 17:09:47 UTC 2005

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:57:08AM -0500, Jing Su wrote:
> I personally think (yeah, I know my personal opinion means nothing in
> the face of proper English) that "disk" should be used as the regular
> default unless the media being handled is discus shaped.  Hard-drives
> are enclosed in nice boxes, so they're "disk".  CDs and DVDs can be
> thrown, and to a degree fly well, so they get "disc".

Hmm, I could go for that, and it wouldn't really mess with what I am
already doing. :)

Lennart Sorensen
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