Can we stop calling regular cigs "Analogs"?

[SPACKlick]

Not supporting the OP's point but there seems to be some misunderstanding in this thread in the difference between digital and analog.

First things first, the opposite of analog isn't digital, it's discrete. Digital is a subset of discrete.

Analog means continuous. It means the data/signa; etc can vary to every position from 0% to 100% whereas a discrete signal has a set number of values. Digital is the special case of discrete where there are only two values.

An analogue watch is analogue because every division of time is represented as the cogs turn, whereas in a digital watch there is some minimum represented division, often milliseconds.

 

[Funk Dracula]

Troll much?

Wanna pick a word to get all hung up on technicalities with? How about the fact that we're reading and posting in the E-SMOKING forum. Now that's slang no vaper uses to describe anything. Yup, that's pretty much used exclusively by the higher powers of ECF and.... and....

 

[Kim B.]

Can we stop calling regular cigs "Analogs"?

No. Because I said so. I'd have to go to all the trouble of changing the wording in my banner, and ain't nobody got time for 'dat man.....

 

[kjb V A P E]

I believe the OP is taking the term "analog cigarette" too literally. Lighten up! Its a term invented by the vaping community and used almost exclusively by the vaping community as a means of reference to a specific item i.e. a "tobacco cigarette" The term "analog cigarette" just sounds cool and hip and makes a clear differentiation and that's why people like to use it.
Heres another definition for you...


slang /slaNG/
noun: slang; plural noun: slangs
1. a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.

Debating whether its technically accurate is just a waste of time.

 

[Ohms Lawbreaker]

Wife called me an old man the other day because I said "tin foil" instead of "aluminum foil." A rose is a rose.

 

[TheJakeBailey]

I can't believe we mad it 3 pages without saying that liquid shouldn't be called juice, and Micro coils aren't necessarily micro, just touching, and...

You guys are slacking!

For the record though, I don't use analog or E-cigarette anywhere but here.

 

[SPACKlick]

For the record though, I don't use analog or E-cigarette anywhere but here.

In RL MY lingo is very different to this forum.
Analogue = ...
E-Cigarette = Vaper
Vaper = Vapist

 

[Bunnykiller]

I guess people will stop calling them analogs when they also quit using the term steep.
steeping is a process to extract flavor from a solid ( as in Tea) since there are no solids in processed liquid, why steep it?? We age the liquid....

 

[SPACKlick]

I guess people will stop calling them analogs when they also quit using the term steep.
steeping is a process to extract flavor from a solid ( as in Tea) since there are no solids in processed liquid, why steep it?? We age the liquid....

Steep doesn't just apply to solids, you can steep gasses to purify them.

steep 2 (stēp)
v. steeped, steep·ing, steeps
v.tr.
1. To soak in liquid in order to cleanse, soften, or extract a given property from.
2. To infuse or subject thoroughly to.
3. To make thoroughly wet; saturate.
v.intr.
To undergo a soaking in liquid.

You do steep your juice to allow the flavorings to fully infuse, although technically you steep the flavoring in the base.

 

[Bunnykiller]

Steep doesn't just apply to solids, you can steep gasses to purify them.


You do steep your juice to allow the flavorings to fully infuse, although technically you steep the flavoring in the base.

steeping gases seems contradictory ... the act of infusing something into another to purify the recipient?

 

[chapeltown]

split hairs much?

Honestly....who cares?

But....since a complaint has been lodged.... what would you find more acceptable, OP?

stinkies....cancer sticks....fags....cigs....tube o'death....

pick one, or make up your own.
Or.....here's an Idea.... don't complain about something that a) you have no solution to or b) has no real impact on life.

thank you.

 

[SPACKlick]

When you Steep Tea you are aiming to take a property from the Tea (flavor, caffeine, color) and infuse it into the water because you want it in the water.
When you steep Cotton in Bleach it's because you want to take a property from the cotton (color) and infuse it into the bleach because you don't want it in the cotton.
Same applies to gasses, you're either purifying the gas, like cotton or extracting something from the gas, like in tea.

 

[Chessiesmile]

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[Wow1420]

If it will make the op feel better, I will call them stinkies from now on. Oh wait, I already do.

Speaking of terminology, when and why did RBAs turn into RTAs?

 

[Ohms Lawbreaker]

....Speaking of terminology, when and why did RBAs turn into RTAs?

It's the NASA Syndrome: "SRB sep, max Q, release the PAMs in LEO and give me an ETA to EVA." Greek but to a geek.

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

Umm who cares! It's a word! There's hundreds of words we use for things that makes no sense but big deal...it's just a word!

 

[DaveP]

A mech IS an analog. VV and VW are digital representations of analog voltages. It's all good. I call paper tube cigarettes ... tobacco cigarettes, anyway.

We all have to develop cute terms for new stuff.

 

[H. Hodges]

Just to add:

A binary out put of 1's and 0's is an out put of "On's" (1's) and "Off's" (0's). They are little switches that when placed in a sequenced order, tell a processor how to perceive the information it represents. This is an over simplification of a digital signal, but still holds true for our purposes.

The output of most APV's is Pulse Width Modulation, which is a series of On's and Off's and looks exactly like a digital output when seen on a oscilloscope. The PWM output signal is a digital DC signal. If the signal was analog, it wold be a wave form.

So, calling a traditional cigarette an analog, when comparing it to a digital electronic device, does work IMHO.

 

[Mutescream]

Truthfully, I can deal with "analog" far easier than "stinky" or "stinkies". Calling them "stinkies" not only makes us sound as if we are putting on airs, but it also makes us simultaneously seems pedantic. It belongs in the same arsenal of vocabulary as "poop". It's patently absurd to sound pretentious and pedantic simultaneously.

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

Truthfully, I can deal with "analog" far easier than "stinky" or "stinkies". Calling them "stinkies" not only makes us sound as if we are putting on airs, but it also makes us simultaneously seems pedantic. It belongs in the same arsenal of vocabulary as "poop". It's patently absurd to sound pretentious and pedantic simultaneously.

I like stinky better because to be honest they do stink. I use to love them but they do stink! It's not like I'm walking up to someone who still smokes and calling them a stinky, that would be "putting on airs"... But amongst ourselves, other vapors, nah its not!