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I have to ask this Thread last updated on 2004-07-02 00:44:11

Posted by member 1958 on 2004-06-30 03:35:34

I'm usually really hard to piss off but for some reason this really pisses me off & I just have to make sure I'm not the only one.

Posted by member 37809 on 2004-06-30 07:18:41 link

*** noob has joined #litestep
<noob> hi, can anyone help me w/ lightstep????

Posted by member 820 on 2004-06-30 15:51:54 link

^^ What tnl said.

Posted by member 1 on 2004-06-30 16:21:11 link

Ill second that emotion

Posted by member 1316 on 2004-06-30 17:49:36 link

it's very annoying...especially since there's a big banner at the top of the page with the correct spelling

Posted by member 7223 on 2004-06-30 22:05:52 link

Let's call a cat, a "cat"; not a "c at"

Posted by member 32550 on 2004-06-30 22:28:23 link

I think it's more annoying if they call "themes" - "skins", a skin is imho only a new look, but you can still see which tool, a theme can be every time complete different

Posted by member 102612 on 2004-07-01 14:14:58 link

actually I think it's funny everyone calls "themes" - "themes". Litestep themes are really interfaces.

Posted by member 144980 on 2004-07-01 15:43:06 link

i cant say that it bothers me, no

Posted by member 39367 on 2004-07-01 23:09:25 link

not really. it makes me mad when my dog poops on the floor though.

Posted by member 99 on 2004-07-02 00:10:11 link

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Posted by member 7991 on 2004-07-02 00:44:11 link

I'd say what bothers me most is people splitting hairs over the 'correct terms.' Such comments only ensure that new users feel even more frustrated. When someone says 'skin', all us experienced users know exactly what the user means, so where is the problem? What sort of confusion does this generate? How is the term "theme" any more appropriate than "skin"? How is a Winamp 5 'skin' so different from a LiteStep 'theme'? What quality of a LiteStep 'theme' makes it closer to the true definition of the word "theme"? Winamp:Skin?

Secondly, try Googling "lite definition". You will find two definitions of the word: a) a pane of glass b) a suffix denoting a product which is reduced in some manner, a misspelling of the word "light" Now, lets think about why this misspelling has penetrated into popular culture? Marketing. This word never truly existed untill someone decided that using a child's misspelling of a proper-english term would perhaps differentiate their product from the masses.

In the end, I think we would be much better spending our time trying to determine why we let such trivial things bother us. Perhaps you should consider the effect of such incomprehensible acronyms as imho, imo, lmao, lol, rtfm, etc.

Don't get me wrong, I take pride in making my instant messages as incomprehensible as I can, fabricating my own new alternate spellings of more than 60% of what I type. I just think people should learn to take a little bit of a step back and have a look at themselves, and ask why they think/behave the way they do, whether good or bad. Then again, I'm a cognitive psychology freak.