Can we stop calling regular cigs "Analogs"?

[bulldog63h]

OP, no one is holding a gun to your head. Call them what you want, refuse to call them what you don't. We aren't going to rag on you for it so show the same consideration for other's choices. In the end, how does the term analog being used affect your life?

 

[Kim B.]

Now seating for the matinee....

 

[rbeckys8]

I just say cigs!!!!

 

[Jay-dub]

Not going to debate anything here. Just throwing out that I never started calling cigs "analogues".

 

[eyerhere]

Y O Y cant you fnd somthing better t o complain and whine about?

 

[Jman8]

I usually say logs, as logs burn, and it is shorter to write.

Smokes works too.

The real question is, can we stop bringing up this topic every 6 weeks?

 

[Giraut]

While you guys are busy bickering over what to call a cigarette, The Man is quietly moving towards banning vaping the world over. Save you energies for fights that are worth fighting...

 

[Roger_Lafayette]

How did I end up reading this thread?

 

[Robino1]

From 2010: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...4876-why-cigarettes-called-analog-cigs-4.html

From 2011: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...69106-why-do-you-call-cigarettes-analogs.html

From 2012: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/new-members-forum/351326-must-we-call-cigarettes-analogs.html

These are just a few that pop up in my Google search.

So, do you think you will be more successful in your endeavor?

My advice, call them whatever you want to call them and don't sweat the small stuff. We have bigger things to fight.

 

[Sundodger]

How did I end up reading this thread?

Same reason I did, just to make sure nothing gets past us. It's that old curiosity thingy. I can say thingy here, can't I?

 

[Robino1]

Same reason I did, just to make sure nothing gets past us. It's that old curiosity thingy. I can say thingy here, can't I?

I say it all the time Along with doohickey and thingamabobber and whatchamacallit

You know.....that thingy that gets screwed onto the doohickey that's topped with the thingamabobber that you put the whatchamacallit into!
And it's all to keep me off the analogs

 

[inanitydefined]

I prefer to call them combustion cigarettes. more accurate imo

 

[jimbodaddy74]

Maybe they're called analogs due to the first half of the word. After a couple of months without them, I realized that they do smell like A55.

 

[ZNinja]

OP - get over yourself. Analog is funny.

 

[Dan_The_Viking]

I won't use the term analog because I don't think anyone outside of this website will know what the hell I am talking about. Analog = cigarette, E-Cig = Vape. for me that is.

 

[awj03130]

Someone once asked me if I would rather be right or happy....

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[leelee.d]

I have to agree. I have never understood why regular cigs are called that. I am new to vaping but I have been researching it for a LONG time. I don't use that term except here because that is the "term" used here. It doesn't irritate me, it is what it is. But, I don't use that term out in public because no one else has a clue what it is or what it means.

 

[beckdg]

Now seating for the matinee....

mind if i sit here? i brought my own straw.

 

[Nick Dubs]

The term analog is stupid because PV gear (unless is has a digital display) is ALSO or actually more analog by definition. You don't say a fire is analog. A lightbulb is not digital just because it goes on and off; neither is PV gear. An electric guitar is analog for example, but so is an acoustic guitar because it is producing sine waves. But you don't call an acoustic guitar an analog guitar In comparison BECAUSE AN ELECTRIC GUITAR ISNT DIGITAL.

because It is semantically incorrect, is why the term should not be used. I could get into a discussion on binary, what sine waves are, etc, but I hesitate to because most people cant seem to grasp the concept that a lightbulb is an analog circuit.

 

[PBOB]

I want to sincerely thank the OP and all subsequent posters on this thread. I have had a very busy morning and needed a distraction for lunchtime reading. You have all provided!

I would say 'Encore', but as pointed out, this is an encore. I look forward to revisiting this subject in the not too distant future.

Now, back to work.