30 Apr
2012
30 Apr
'12
7:23 p.m.
Mouse wrote:
s/What hewaters/Water heaters/. tony's typing is
not always everything
it could be. On that point I have been cutting him slack; typos like
his don't bother me nearly as much as word-choice sloppiness (cf the
pernicious "lo(o)se"). In this particular case, it was even more
confusing than usual; I found it helpful to note that he was replying
to a line of mine with a list of devices that included water heaters. I haven't
been paying attention, but is English his first langauge?
Fixed in
the sense of fixed disk. As in, stuck in it's place by design.
As opposed to a non-fixed disk, that can be removed from the drive
assembly (usually in the form of a cartridge, like a floppy disk or an
SD card.)
What hewaters are nearly always hardwired over here
too
WHAT is hardwired? regualtions prohibit any socket outlets in a 'room
containing a
fixed bath or shower'.
Is a "fixed" bath or shower one that has been
repaired?
Or, as with a "fixed disk", using the veterinary meaning?