The word "labtop"

[Rehan]

Is there something in the translation of the word laptop in other languages that makes people spell or say it as "labtop"?! It seems to not be too uncommon...

http://www.redflagdeals.net/forums/search....keywords=labtop (http://www.redflagdeals.net/forums/search.php?search_keywords=labtop)

[lionhe@rt]

The proper term is "Notebook", or so i'm told....

[fance_mark]

Laptop.
right?

[lionhe@rt]

Goto Dell's site, notice its Inspiron "Notebooks". Goto IBM's site, notice its Thinkpad "Notebooks". etc etc..........

[Zippity]

a 'labtop' would be a portable PC, but it still uses fullsized parts so that it can be upgraded.

they aren't very common -- i usually see them in labs where high processing power is necessary. probably why the term 'labtop' came to be.

[old_mate]

I remember years ago when my dad brought home a laptop from work for a while. It was a powerful 286 :) . It had an orange monotone screen. It was called a laptop because if you didn't have a table to use it it on you had to put it on your lap - all of your lap. And it was very very heavy.

The notebooks these days are called notebooks because they are tiny compared to the old laptops, sort of like comparing a paper notebook to a big book.

[fance_mark]

For me its more a matter of whats easier to understand...
At school if you say take your notebook, what does that mean?
Take your laptop, you know right away you're not talking about paper notebooks.
I guess you could say take your computer notebook...

[Rehan]

Errr... My question was not about whether it should be "notebook" or "laptop". What I was asking was why some people write "labtop" instead of "laptop", where it's clearly not just a typo...

[fance_mark]

I was just replying to the people who were saying the correct term is notebook.

[Mad_MaX]

Errr... My question was not about whether it should be "notebook" or "laptop". What I was asking was why some people write "labtop" instead of "laptop", where it's clearly not just a typo...Good question, stuff like that kinda grates on me. People writing "prolly" gets on my nerves too. It only saves 2 letters and it doesn't even sound like probably. Blah... maybe I need to take a pill or something.

[sfu_lifer]

I noticed that people (sorry, usually Asian folk) mistype that and mispronounce it too. Irritates me for no reason :D...

[Rehan]

People writing "prolly" gets on my nerves too.
:oops: I do that sometimes. But I think there's (http://www.redflagdeals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21470) many people that do that...

[Mad_MaX]

People writing "prolly" gets on my nerves too.
:oops: I do that sometimes. But I think there's (http://www.redflagdeals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21470) many people that do that...lol, good thread, I missed that one somehow...

[stevethewheel]

Is there something in the translation of the word laptop in other languages that makes people spell or say it as "labtop"?!  It seems to not be too uncommon...



Actually Rehan you had the right idea but it is not really the word laptop as much as the letter p.

There are some languages that can't deal with the letter "p" and they default to "b"...

For instance in many Arab countries when you want a cola drink you might ask for Bebsi.

Do a google search on bebsi and you will find items like this:

http://www.aramco-brats.com/museum/bebsi-detail.htm

Oh and you can find lots of labtob examples too, which isn't the same as labtop but I hope it's what you meant.

SO much for today's trivia.

[ngp]

LOL...
Yeah, sometimes it takes me quite an effort to try to understand what some of my friends are saying when they IM me...
I don't think they realize what the differences are between words such as "their, their, they're" etc...

[Rehan]

Actually Rehan you had the right idea but it is not really the word laptop as much as the letter p.

There are some languages that can't deal with the letter "p" and they default to "b"...

For instance in many Arab countries when you want a cola drink you might ask for   Bebsi.    

Do a google search on bebsi and you will find items like this:

http://www.aramco-brats.com/museum/bebsi-detail.htm

Oh and you can find  lots of    labtob  examples too, which isn't the same as labtop but I hope it's what you meant.

SO  much for today's trivia.
hehe... Yeah, I know about the lack of 'p' in Arabic, and I've heard the "barking lot" jokes before, too. :D But I doubt any of the posts in this forum where "labtop" was used were from Arabic-speaking people.

Which other languages don't have 'p'?

[CanadianMike]

i really think it is just people who dont know how to spell it properly. when you say laptop it can kind of sound like "labtop" so people spell it that way.

[tharsan]

i prefer "prolly" to "probably" because although it may only look like it saves two letters, just typing each word... go ahead try it, i'll wait - you can use your IE Address bar for practice.

see the difference yet? your finger movements make typing the word "prolly" go alot faster than "probably" i find.

[stevethewheel]

I've heard the "barking lot" jokes before, too. :D  But I doubt any of the posts in this forum where "labtop" was used were from Arabic-speaking people.

Which other languages don't have 'p'?

Rehan - I sure hope you didn't think I was making fun of Arabs or anyone else (or trying to hook up on some ethnic joke) I was thinking that if a person learns to speak English before reading it then they will be inclined to spell the way it sounds in their head.

I used the Pepsi example because they have translated their name in Arabic (refer to the link and see the bottle on the left) and so accept that their drink will be called Bebsi rather than force an uncomfortable sound on people. This was done 30 or more years ago and quite a feat for an American company I think. I found this out while traveling in Algeria and Morocco.

Don't know what other languages would substitute b for p.

[Rehan]

No, I didn't think at all that you were making fun of Arabs... :)

[swifferman]

I'm almost positive labtop is used (usually from Chinese people) because of their accent. They say it like the word labtop so when they put it down on paper, and have never seen the word written down, they are likely to write it as they hear it. Much like when you sound out a word to try to spell it. Ridiculous, if you didn't know how to spell it, would sound something like this:
Ridikikulus
(Coincidentally, a harry potter spell, THAT"S RIGHT, I SAID IT)

[spongecake]

I get annoyed by hearing "supposebly" and also by everyone who has kids bragging about the stupid ways their kids mangle the word spaghetti or say flutterby. grrrrrrr


Anyway, since notebook/laptop was brought up, I believe laptop is generally for the older and notebook for the newer, but like someone else said notebook is already a word for something else. :P

Think of the word "beeper". Is there any real difference between a beeper and a pager except for time?

Even mobile phone/cell. lalala

[Rehan]

Hehe. English is such a strange langauge, eh?

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A large amount of typing errors are caused by 3 reasons:
1. Carelessness
2. Spelling differences across countries (e.g. color/colour)
3. Nonnative English speakers trying to cope with illogical spelling rules
I now strongly suggest we should try to simplify the language. To try and do this in one attempt could be disastrous, so I think we should phase it in over a 5 year period. My suggestions are as follows, and I hope you will agree.

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will reseive this news with joy.

Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. We will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the forth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v".

During ze fifz year ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" , so Soup will then be known as Sup and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trobls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

[spongecake]

:lol:

[bubble.tea]

LMAO., how the first 7 posts were totally off've what OP was asking about., then he clarified...I knew (cuz I've got an ear for languages) exactly what the reason was behind.

Same reason why you'll hear some old school Arabs say Tembbbberashure lol...

Same reason why Vietnamese Bubble.Tea shop owners, say BOBA...because the linguistics of the language don't articulate |Bub-Bill|, and so it get's bastardized into BOBA. :D

God I love Ethnic Diversity. Life would be so BORING without cultural influences and exposure.

[crimsona]

Add Scandisk and Maxwell to that list.

[MkmBandit]

Add Scandisk and Maxwell to that list.

add 'three' to that list


june 2003->sept 2006 :lol: :lol: :razz:

[Flyer]

I call it the mobile gaming unit

[bubble.tea]

how bout 'Bencil' :lol:

[red_roses101]

zero...korean friend: Jero; asian-descent teacher: Cero
Anyway, a teacher said labtop yesterday...what a coincidence. He pressed a button, went to the wrong Powerpoint slide...and he said, Ah..I hate this labtop.

[felixdd]

baaaaaiiiiinnnntt! :lol:

Now that I got that racially dubious (yet devilishly funny) urge off my chest...I always chalked up "labtop" to be those who badly transposed phonetics to spelling.

[Riffer]

Not that common now, but when I was young, you would often hear people saying "communnism" and "libary".

[Bortman]

Is there something in the translation of the word laptop in other languages that makes people spell or say it as "labtop"?! It seems to not be too uncommon...

http://www.redflagdeals.net/forums/search....keywords=labtop (http://www.redflagdeals.net/forums/search.php?search_keywords=labtop)

In the line of work I'm currently at I hear crap like that all day everyday. People are complete morons... Here is a few things people say to us daily:

Labtop
Lemarks
Scandisk
Kodiak
Hoolet Pukard
Celetron
Pentelum
Cartliges

Thats just to name a few...