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« Reply #15 on: 11:28:54, 16-09-2007 »
Quote from: increpatio on 22:22:18, 15-09-2007
Quote from: TimR-J on 12:03:00, 15-09-2007
Very glad you're happy with it, A! It might take a bit of getting used to, but one of the nice things about it is that it is, essentially, just a harddrive with no fancy front-end software like iTunes - so no worries about software crashes;

Unless you count windows as a piece of software... .

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« Reply #16 on: 13:05:55, 16-09-2007 »
Is it just me that gets annoyed by the spelling of the word 'synced' used frequently by iTunes?
Surely it should be 'synched' or something... 'synced' just looks wrong (but then again so does 'synched'... 'synked'? even worse).
I've had a 60GB iPod and my only criticism of it is that having so much music on it at the same time means that I'm quite lazy about maintaining the collection (if it's on, it generally stays on so that now I've completely filled it and can't be bothered to clear some of the dead wood to enter new music).
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« Reply #17 on: 13:33:26, 16-09-2007 »
Surely "sunch"?
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« Reply #18 on: 13:34:32, 16-09-2007 »
Synched. Absolutely. I'm prepared to stick up for that one.

One word that really bothers me is arced/arcing. The c is indeed hard, so I believe (just as well if you think about it). We write picnicked, picnicking, but not arcked or arcking. I mean, they look ridiculous but at least they look how they sound. I believe the word was even spelt ark when it was brought in from the French. Arking, arked? I don't know. I'm stumped.
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« Reply #19 on: 18:41:00, 16-09-2007 »
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Synched. Absolutely. I'm prepared to stick up for that one.

Sorry; I can't accept that; a little bit too close to "sinh" (pronounced "sinch") for me to be able to do anything other than associate it with hyperbolic trigonometry.
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« Reply #20 on: 16:15:09, 30-01-2008 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 13:34:32, 16-09-2007
Synched. Absolutely. I'm prepared to stick up for that one.

One word that really bothers me is arced/arcing. The c is indeed hard, so I believe (just as well if you think about it). We write picnicked, picnicking, but not arcked or arcking. I mean, they look ridiculous but at least they look how they sound. I believe the word was even spelt ark when it was brought in from the French. Arking, arked? I don't know. I'm stumped.
Apparently I'm not meant to post in this thread after it's been so long silent, and what I'm about to say is completely off-topic anyway, but just to say that I agree with Ollie on both the above counts.

'Synched': I don't see the problem, and there's no other way that works as well.

'Arc*ed/ing': extremely troubling. I have no suggestions.


Slightly more on-topic, I wonder how A's getting on with her Cowon iAudio. (Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere since last August, I've only just discovered this thread!)
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« Reply #21 on: 18:29:37, 30-01-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 16:15:09, 30-01-2008
'Arc*ed/ing': extremely troubling. I have no suggestions.
FWIW, the apple oed says arced and arcing.  I might venturinge a poetical arc'd if pushed personally.
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« Reply #22 on: 21:11:58, 30-01-2008 »
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« Reply #23 on: 09:08:01, 01-02-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 16:15:09, 30-01-2008


Slightly more on-topic, I wonder how A's getting on with her Cowon iAudio. (Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere since last August, I've only just discovered this thread!)

Not at all well t-is-n . I found it awkward and heavy...so, it sits in my drawer untouched. I have gone back to my ipod nano which I love!

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« Reply #24 on: 09:51:15, 01-02-2008 »
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Sorry to hear that, A.
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« Reply #25 on: 15:48:24, 01-02-2008 »
That's a pity, A...

Perhaps a Member not too far away might be willing to make a reasonable offer to find it a happy home?

Nudge, nudge, PM, wink, wink.  Wink
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« Reply #26 on: 15:55:06, 01-02-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 16:15:09, 30-01-2008
'Arc*ed/ing': extremely troubling. I have no suggestions.

The alternatives of arqued/arquing or perhaps even arqed/arqing have just sprung to (my) mind.

I don't know if either might qualify as an elegant solution under what we've all agreed are exceptionally difficult circumstances...
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« Reply #27 on: 16:00:00, 01-02-2008 »
I must say I'm rather taken with 'arqued/-ing'.
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« Reply #28 on: 16:10:36, 01-02-2008 »
Brunel University Department of Creative Pedantry at your service.  Smiley
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« Reply #29 on: 11:32:38, 17-03-2008 »
(Another Ollie Confession:

As I've already let slip once upon a time, I can't stand it when CDDB throws up titles with everything capitalised. So I either correct the tracks one by one in my usual pedantic way (if there aren't too many) or I grit my teeth and bear it (if it's something like the St Matthew Passion with 102 tracks).

But when it throws up something in Japanese I keep it.

Am I the only one?)
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