• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      But the way the sentence is structured is saying that burning happened to the OG disc. Burning is what happens to the copy disc.

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          6 days ago

          It’s the difference between “I borrowed some money” and “I loaned someone money”. They mean different things, including people occasionally creating awful sentences like “I borrowed him some money” (shudder).

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              5 days ago

              It’s another example of how related words are misused to provide another example. The author of the article decided to use a word they clearly didn’t understand. Are you trying to pull some reverse pedantry shit?

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                  Sneer all you like, one of the things I do is fix technical specs for a living. Being a pedantic nerd literally pays my bills.

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          6 days ago

          No, but the verbage is still incorrect for what they were doing. The correct way wouldn’t be that much more words, just different words.

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            6 days ago

            Not really. “The information on the original was burned into another new disc”

            “I burned the original disc”

            Lol this is the dumbest thing ive spent time commenting.

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              “I burned the original disc” would never mean “I made a copy of the original disc to another CD-R” to anyone that actually knows what burning a disc is.

              It would either mean “The original disc is a CD-R that I burned an image to”, or “I threw the original disc in a fire”.

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                5 days ago

                Friend with baggy jeans and a System of a Down CD says: “hey i dont have a computer, can you burn this disc?”

                Is he an idiot? Does he not truly know what he is talking about? Can i stop replying to this comment chain?

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                  No, because in that context it makes sense to assume he means burning to a blank CD.

                  If he showed me the official CD and said “My friend burned this”, intending to mean “My friend made a copy of this to their own blank CD”, I’d look at them and think “That’s clearly not a burnt CD-R, that looks like a legit release”.

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                    When you say “…he means burning to a blank CD.”

                    You are burning what onto a blank CD? The data from the original CD? So you are saying he means to burn the original CD to a blank CD? In other words:

                    “I burned this CD [to a blank CD].”

                    Seriously this is pointless please set me free.