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I saw this message while backing up files on my computer:
"Please insert the next media."
"That's awkward!", I thought. They use a plural form where they're referring
to a single object. Yet even using "medium" wouldn't be right; they're not
talking about switching from tape to disk or TV to a magazine. The software
backs up files on floppies, zip disks, tape, CD-R, etc., so they couldn't be
that specific. (Hmm.. come to think of it, they probably *could* detect
what device/media they're writing to, and use alternate messages such as
"Please insert the next CD-R.")
Some of you on this list have no doubt run into this situation... having to
refer to storage media in a non-specific way. How did you handle it?
-Keith Carlson
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