[Bill Graham]

Don Pearce wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:58:06 -0500, "Steve King"
wrote:

"Ed Anson" wrote in message
...
On 6/29/11 2:53 PM, Frank wrote:
P.S. Another one that bothers me is people with camcorders who say
that they're "filming".

If they were using a film-based motion picture camera, then the
term "filming" would be appropriate, but when using a camcorder,
they're "shooting video", not "filming", at least as far as I'm
concerned.

So I suppose you would also object to someone saying he is
"dialing" a telephone. Telephones haven't had dials in decades. I
wonder what we should say instead?

I recently read that younger people are referring to the way they
input data on computers and phones as, "Keying". Supposedly it came
from really young kids who have grown up with computers.

Steve King


And here you use "input" as a verb. Surely it would be better to say
"the way they put data into computers".

d

Isn't "keying" what locksmiths do?