when a person or group of people put an i in the name it means improved.
for example iphone or ipod
did anyone else know that? :confused:
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when a person or group of people put an i in the name it means improved.
for example iphone or ipod
did anyone else know that? :confused:
i get the Improved Phone but wtf is a pod ? you do you improve a Pod . whatever a pod is
It stands for ingenious and incredible, as in Simon. \o/
http://www.littlebigplanet.com/image...laying-pod.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by howMUCHforBOUNTY
Im confused by reading your post Bounty LOL I dont why.
I didnt know that Jimydog! Thanks, you learn something new every day :D
ok so everyone knows what a Phone is but what is a ''Pod'' (apart from the lbp pod thanks napero7)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenderjt
The i in the first iMac stood for Internet according to wikipedia. Or individual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11625862Quote:
language expert Tony Thorne says single-letter prefixes have been "trendy" since the 1990s, first with e-mail, then e-commerce and other brands such as Npower or M People.
But "i" works best because its meaning has become "completely ambiguous", he says.
Whereas with iMac it stood primarily for "internet", the iPod - and many products since - have left customers guessing as to whether it might be internet, information, individual or interactive, argues Mr Thorne.
"Even when Apple originated the iPod, it seems it didn't have one precise denotation. iPod had already been patented as the name of an information kiosk," he says.
From the newspaper's point of view, it fits in with the idea of it being a light edition, says Mr Thorne, former head of the Language Centre at King's College London.
"It's taken on a life of its own, with these overtones now of easy portability or usability - senses which don't usually relate to the letter 'i'."
"People accept prefixes in a different way now. We used to have to use them according to their true meaning but now it's more symbolic."
Basically, it's nothing. It's just a cool-sounding prefix that has ingrained itself into our tech-fashion centric cultural identity.
@syroc, so you're proper name is sIngeniousMon?
That's my full name, yes. But if I use that I get confused for a Pokemon. :(
Idon't Icare, Iit's Ireally Iawesome Ianyway!!!
A pod is something you listen to music on OR something that peas grow in. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by howMUCHforBOUNTY