whats with dudes calling records "vinyls"?
The_Hook_Up
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two dudes in the shop exclaiming shit like "Muddy Waters Vinyls!" "Nirvana Vinyls!"I dont why, but it bugs the shit outta me
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I dont why, but it bugs the shit outta me [/color]
I've seen that shit happen HERE ON THIS SITE!
Bothers me too. The only thing worse is when I hear cats referring to all recorded materials as "pieces." You know, "in my whole collection, I have about 30 'pieces' by Jimmy Smith" or some such bullshit.
Big co-sign on this one.
straight amateur move.
They probably go home and listen to their Blondie come-ups on a vinyls player.
MCF
Divinyls vinyls!
"i finally found the linda rondstat vynil i was looking for, my local goodwill had so many vynils today i knew i would find it"
They sound british.
It's a euro thing, I can confirm.
Or when I used to work in a record store...at least once a week some hip-hop fan would be all like: "hey, got any raps[/b]? Where do you keep your new raps[/b]?"
How about Vinyls 12 inches?
European, maybe - here in the U of K, it's vinyl singular, and don't you forget it.
I think it's a young'uns thing. "Album" seems to have fallen out of popular usage, and people use the plural when talking about more than one CD, so maybe there's an assumption that the plural should be used where vinyl is concerned. It annoys me a little as well, though - I mean, would you call CDs "aluminium-coated polycarbonate plastics"?
this is along the same lines as calling your tables "turns." i hate it when cats call me "king" instead of otto. still, sounds like some newbies that are only used to cds and excited that they discovered records.... or do they call the cds "plastics," or "polyurethanes?"
I knew a guy named Heinz ("yes, like the fucking ketchup!" as he would scream into the phone on business calls) from Nurenburg who would not only refer to records as "vinyls," but pronounce it "WHY-NULLZ," as in, "I used to have fife zouzand why-nullz."
He would also refer to the King of Rock and Roll as "El-wiss."
Germans are amongst the worst when it comes to misuse and mutilation of enlish terms.
Can you believe that the official German word for cellphone is "Handy" as in "Ruf mich auf meinem Handy an". Makes me cringe everytime I hear it.
Those awful aluminum fold-up scooters which even grown ups liked to ridicule themselves with some 10 years ago were sold as "Kickboards" in German stores.
Germans also like to call clubs a "Location"...
And everyone has their own horribly sounding way to mispronounce the word "Lounge"
Fucking morons...
This was a big joke amongs the sales guys when I worked retail. We had someone ask for "Pro Cake". I had someone ask for "like you know, the analog (puts hands in shape of an mbox), you know, um, track???"
I just looked at this dude, trying to keep a straight face while my boy literally rolls on the ground laughing behind him. "Yeah, try the other dept...."
For the language dorks out there, the reason "vinyls" sounds so ridiculous is because the word vinyl is what's known as a substance noun. Substance nouns are almost always used as indefinite plurals, meaning they can't gracefully be used to refer to specific objects. Thus, adding a pluralizing 's' to substance nouns is redundant, and makes the word sound awkward (e.g. "muds", waters", "irons", etc.).