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[methylatedspirit]

Tell that to the people in my country. ROM, in the context of phones, is storage to them. It's entirely wrong, but it's too ingrained by now.

[scriver]

Tell that to the people in my country.

I'm going to guess Australia or the Philippines, but I'm hoping for Mongolia

[bloop_bleep]

ROM isn't storage, it's Read-Only Memory.

Well, read-only memory is persistent, is it not? So it would be "storage," just probably for firmware and not for user-level stuff.

And, technically, flash memory is considered read-only memory, or EEPROM in particular, despite that it can be erased and reprogrammed quickly enough for it to act as some manner of a replacement to a hard disk drive.

It is true that all of the phone's memory is random-access, though.

[Magistrum]

Electronic technicians here in Brazil refer to the firmware storage in PICs as ROM, even if it isn't exactly that, because it stuck from older chips. Maybe it is something like that?

In the end of the day it doesn't really matter what words you use as long as the meaning gets passed.

Unless you are a professional. Please use appropriate terminology, if I have to go trough one more drawer looking for the "fatty" capacitor another time I'll murder everyone in this room.

[hector13]

No, you are a fatty capacitor.

what’s a fatty capacitor does it help you store your ganj

[methylatedspirit]

what’s a fatty capacitor does it help you store your ganj

Don't let the magic smoke out!

[Putnam]

i don't really wanna use the capacitors with a little bit of a belly to them. a little bit of girth. that little dome

[Kagus]

Apparently there's been a recent study indicating that 1 in 3 Norwegians under the age of 30 prefer to speak English when speaking with Danes, instead of trying to communicate using their very closely related sister languages.

This doesn't mean a whole lot for a non-Scandinavian, but I find it pretty hilarious. They also interviewed an Icelandic fellow, who said that he prefers speaking English in most settings (including when addressing Danes, despite having learned Danish in school) because "Come on, Icelandic is the most impractical language in the world".

[Teneb]

Apparently there's been a recent study indicating that 1 in 3 Norwegians under the age of 30 prefer to speak English when speaking with Danes, instead of trying to communicate using their very closely related sister languages.

This doesn't mean a whole lot for a non-Scandinavian, but I find it pretty hilarious. They also interviewed an Icelandic fellow, who said that he prefers speaking English in most settings (including when addressing Danes, despite having learned Danish in school) because "Come on, Icelandic is the most impractical language in the world".

Bah, you should just speak your own language while faking the accent of whomever you are speaking to and throw in some words of the other language in for effect.

Portunhol is a perfectly legitimate language.

[Kagus]

I mean, that's pretty much what scandis do anyways. People just speak whichever flavor of Danish/Norwegian/Swedish they're most comfortable with, and the other person normally gets the gist enough to respond with their own preferred language, with everyone kinda subconsciously tweaking their dialect so that it leans into the other language.

And the study says it's STILL what 80% of young Norwegians do when confronted with Swedish... But Denmark gets to be the odd child out because nobody can understand what they're saying.

Honestly though, I've met Norwegians that I'd rather speak English with, because they come from the ass-end of Nowheresville in Norway and have cultivated a unique dialect with the other five residents that is completely and utterly incomprehensible to outsiders. It's not exclusive to country borders.

[scriver]

Linguistically speaking (as in according to a linguist I saw on tv some time ago) Norwegian and Swedish is technically the same language, while Danish is a separate language, so that makes sense.

Naturally it is such that Norwegian is a dialect of Swedish, of course, not the other way around.

[hector13]

*reuses tired old jokes about Sweden being Eastern Norway and such*

[CABL]

*reuses tired old jokes about Sweden being Eastern Norway and such*

Actually, the entire Scandinavian peninsula is technically the part of Northwestern Russia. *wink wink*

[IcyTea31]

How dare you imply that the Rebellious Eastern and Western Provinces of the Finnish Empire have any right to independence?

[bloop_bleep]

How dare you imply that the Rebellious Eastern and Western Provinces of the Finnish Empire have any right to independence?

*reuses tired old jokes about Sweden being Eastern Norway and such*

Well, ackshually, the Swedish Empire had control over the majority of Norway and Finland for some time in the Middle Ages, so...