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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 09:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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...

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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 09:53 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The proper term is "Notebook", or so i'm told....
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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 09:55 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Laptop.
right?
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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 10:06 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Goto Dell's site, notice its Inspiron "Notebooks". Goto IBM's site, notice its Thinkpad "Notebooks". etc etc..........
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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 10:19 PM   #5 (permalink)
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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.
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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 10:22 PM   #6 (permalink)
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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.
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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...
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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 10:29 PM   #8 (permalink)
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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...
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I was just replying to the people who were saying the correct term is notebook.
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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 11:02 PM   #10 (permalink)
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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.
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I noticed that people (sorry, usually Asian folk) mistype that and mispronounce it too. Irritates me for no reason ...
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Old Jun 27th, 2003, 11:10 PM   #12 (permalink)
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People writing "prolly" gets on my nerves too.
ops: I do that sometimes. But I think there's many people that do that...
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People writing "prolly" gets on my nerves too.
ops: I do that sometimes. But I think there's many people that do that...
lol, good thread, I missed that one somehow...
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Old Jun 28th, 2003, 01:13 AM   #14 (permalink)
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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.
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Old Jun 28th, 2003, 01:14 AM   #15 (permalink)
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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...
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