• tee9000@lemmy.world
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    6 天前

    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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      6 天前

      “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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        6 天前

        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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          6 天前

          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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            6 天前

            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.

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              6 天前

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

              That’s exactly where it stops making sense.

              If you have a painting, and you show it to someone and ask “Could you paint this?”, they would assume you’re asking if they’d be able to sit down at a blank canvas and paint the same picture.

              If you have a painting and say “I painted this”, they’re going to assume you’re talking about the painting in your hands, not a reproduction you made that’s hanging up in your garage.

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                6 天前

                But duuuude when you say “burn to” you are using the terminology you say is incorrect. You would have to say “from this cd im burning a copy” and yet you yourself are using the verbiage “burning to” which directly implies the original cd is being burned [to a copy].

                The whole point is that people used burning as a short way of saying what you are saying is correct. People made burn into a verb as a replacement for copy. Its the same thing as saying im burning this data… because you are indeed burning the data onto a copy. People can say “im burning this disc” to mean the same thing this is fucking stuuuuuupid

                Edit: its like “im tattooing a tribal pattern onto this guys ass” is the same as “im tattooing a tribal pattern”

                Does that mean someone is tattooing something onto a tribal pattern? No!!! Go away please

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              lol if you want to go through life using words incorrectly and sounding like you don’t know what you’re talking about to people that do, be my guest. this is a comment thread about a word choice in an article that was clearly confusing for that very reason