GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 349194
s/disk/disc/ on Multimedia tab
Last modified: 2006-07-31 20:49:10 UTC
On the Multimedia tab of the "Removable Drives and Media Preferences" dialog, there's this string: "Play video DVD disks when inserted". This is right after the string "Play audio CD discs when inserted". If CDs are discs, then DVDs should be discs too, not disks. Then there's also the issue that "video DVD disks" expands to "video digital video discs disks". Yikes. Gnome should probably have some terminology guidelines for this stuff.
I just changed disks to discs in CVS, thanks for catching that. not sure how to handle "video DVD discs" tho, I'll add dobey to the cc list
DVD actually expands to Digital Versatile Disc. I'm not sure how important it is, but if it's an issue, I would just replace "DVD discs" with "DVDs."
Well, yeah, I guess after they retconned the acronym. But I'll bet there are a lot of people in the world that think "video" when the see the "V", so in their minds, it's still redundant. Then again, given that DVDs are so, um, versatile, "video DVD" is a useful thing to say, just as it's useful to talk about audio CDs, as opposed to data CDs. Maybe I'm just weird. I cringe when I hear people say "ATM machine" or "PIN number". But lots of people say it, so obviously the whole world isn't cringing with me. Pluralized initialisms are potentially problematic. Only the wonder of mixed-case type allows us to distinguish them from a distinct initialism in their own right. Using the initialism as an attributive noun is one way to avoid pluralizing the initialism. Unfortunately, the last letter often stands for the thing you would make the initialism modify, as is the case with "DVD discs". We don't, at this time, have firm recommendations concerning this, so I wouldn't fret over it right now. The word "disk" was changed, and that was the real bug.
hehe, I gave up my cringification about ATM machine and PIN number a long time ago... :p
ok, I'm gonna mark this fixed for now