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i in the name

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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?
2010-12-31 11:11:00

Author:
jimydog000
Posts: 813


i get the Improved Phone but wtf is a pod ? you do you improve a Pod . whatever a pod is2010-12-31 11:14:00

Author:
howMUCHforBOUNTY
Posts: 623


It stands for ingenious and incredible, as in Simon. o/2010-12-31 11:17:00

Author:
Syroc
Posts: 3193


i get the Improved Phone but wtf is a pod ? you do you improve a Pod . whatever a pod is

http://www.littlebigplanet.com/images/assets/shared/playing-pod.jpg
2010-12-31 11:17:00

Author:
napero7
Posts: 1653


Im confused by reading your post Bounty LOL I dont why.

I didnt know that Jimydog! Thanks, you learn something new every day
2010-12-31 11:18:00

Author:
Fenderjt
Posts: 1969


Im confused by reading your post Bounty LOL I dont why.

I didnt know that Jimydog! Thanks, you learn something new every day

ok so everyone knows what a Phone is but what is a ''Pod'' (apart from the lbp pod thanks napero7)
2010-12-31 11:20:00

Author:
howMUCHforBOUNTY
Posts: 623


The i in the first iMac stood for Internet according to wikipedia. Or individual.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac
2010-12-31 11:21:00

Author:
Syroc
Posts: 3193


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."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11625862

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?
2010-12-31 11:31:00

Author:
rtm223
Posts: 6497


That's my full name, yes. But if I use that I get confused for a Pokemon. 2010-12-31 11:47:00

Author:
Syroc
Posts: 3193


Idon't Icare, Iit's Ireally Iawesome Ianyway!!!2010-12-31 11:59:00

Author:
moonwire
Posts: 1627


ok so everyone knows what a Phone is but what is a ''Pod'' (apart from the lbp pod thanks napero7)

A pod is something you listen to music on OR something that peas grow in.
2010-12-31 12:15:00

Author:
Fenderjt
Posts: 1969


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