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Re: Re[2]: what do you call it when your computer stops?
Subject:Re: Re[2]: what do you call it when your computer stops? From:Len Olszewski <zeuser -at- NANDO -dot- NET> Date:Sat, 16 Sep 1995 05:14:41 GMT
powen -at- mail -dot- lmi -dot- org wrote:
> I agree with Mark's option:
> > I say "stops responding". I think the phrase sort of portrays
> >the user's point of view...
[...]
Well, the "un-PC" way most of us refer to this phenomenon in
verbal interchange is to say "the computer is hung". Naturally,
this is disconcertingly phallic. If you are on a network, and
you work in close proximity to your co-workers who are also on
that same network, there is the tendency, when your own
computer is hung, to go from one co-worker to another, asking
"Are you hung?"
I got into trouble a long time ago misinterpretting the intent
of that question. Hasn't happened to me in a while.
