[Ti] Tiny TinBook: First Impressions

[Stephen Chakwin]

Interestingly enough, in classical Greek, the word "tin" is a 
demonstrative pronoun roughly equivalent to "this" or "such a" as an 
emphatic, so "tin book" would have a double connotation (at least for 
any classical Greeks reading the postings) of not only book made of 
tin, but book being pointed out with special emphasis.

That being said, I don't think the new proposal is any more worthy of 
getting off the ground than Steve W's "mebook".  Powerbook or something 
plain vanilla and material-neutral probably has a better chance of 
lasting longer.  After all, do we want to change the name every two 
years as Apple works its way arond the periodic table?  (I don't want 
to know about Plutonium books!!)

Stephen
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 06:16 PM, John Griffin wrote:

> On  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:39:04 -0800 Robert Ameeti <robert at ameeti.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> But as we've accepted that a Ti or TiBook is acceptable for a Titanium
>> PowerBook, it still escapes me why some have chosen to change the 
>> metal to Tin
>> which is in no way similar to Aluminum, rather than call it an Al or 
>> AlBook.
>> Especially as Tin is often thought of as an inferior metal.
>
> But on the other hand Tinbook could be a kind of affectionate moniker!
> (Think reverse snobbery here). In fact such a designation could cover 
> all
> Powerbooks (titanium and aluminium alike). My suggestion would be to 
> call
> this list the <TinBook at lists.themacintoshguy.com> list.
>
> jg
>
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