Can we stop calling regular cigs "Analogs"?

[Ohms Lawbreaker]

"Goth" or "emo?"

 

[wheelie]

HAHAHA call em what you want. All my heads run burners. Own a mechanical company and to me they are burners. coils go in transformers.

 

[beckdg]

Analog doesn't have to refer to anything digital, it's used in a variety of ways. The English language is adaptive and constantly changing. That is why new editions of dictionaries are printed. Quick FYI, Ain't is now a word, and it is in the dictionary. Gay used to mean happy. Literally no longer means literally. The list goes on, but I digress.


analog or analogue (ăn′ə-lôg′)

Noun
1. An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin. The wings of birds and the wings of insects are analogs.
2. A chemical compound that has a similar structure and similar chemical properties to those of another compound, but differs from it by a single element or group. The antibiotic amoxicillin, for example, is an analog of penicillin, differing from the latter by the addition of an amino group.

figuratively speaking of course.

ain't gunna bodder me do. isa gunna leev dat up to da grammer notsees.

 

[Chessiesmile]

.....................and could you tell me "what is your vector victor?

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.

 

[Moedog]

For the last several decades, analog has been associated with old school technology while digital has been associated with new technology. When vaping came on the scene about five years ago, the US was right in the middle of the big analog to digital TV transition so it was on everybody's mind, so it pretty much a natural. Plus, a traditional cigarette produces a continuous (analog) stream of smoke, while a vaping device produces pulses (digital) of vapor. I think the term "analog" is completely appropriate and will continue to use it.

 

[twgbonehead]

All regulated PV's have a chip (that means it processes binary) to regulate them.

Sorry, that's not true. Just because it has a chip doesn't mean it's digital, there are analog circuits as well. (and there are many e-cigarettes that don't have a chip).

An ego twist, for example, has a regulator in it, but the circuit is entirely analog. There are even VW devices that are entirely analog.

Once you through a display on it, well, then it becomes digital.

However, nothing about the actual e-cigarette's basic operation (using electricity to vaporize nic liquid) is digital in any way, shape, or form.

 

[LoriVanPelt]

Oh bacon here we go again... You forgot to start a thread telling us to stop calling them e-cigarettes too,.

you also forgot to add that provari is the shizzy and all others are for ........ just sayin

 

[twgbonehead]

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

Not sure I'd want to be called a "Serial Vapist".

 

[Fast and Furious]

"It was a vicious battle lasting well into the morning. All ammunition exhausted we began fighting for our lives using anything available. We hit them with rocks, sticks, metal, glass .................... analog. Finally, something large enough to stop those .......s! Our battle was won".

Tom

 

[olderthandirt]

I take pleasure in referring to tobacco cigarettes as "analogs".

So no, ain't gonna stop doin' so anytime soon (-;

 

[MustangSallie]

The term analog doesn't offend me, although I don't really use it much, if at all. I typically say what I mean and since I assume most of us here used to smoke, cigarette usually suffices to get my point across. The term that's used here a lot that makes my skin crawl is stinky. It reminds me of a young child trying to describe something before they've developed the vocabulary to use it's correct name. If the choices were analog or stinky, analog would win all day long. Of course, I understand it's not my choice. That's why I haven't started threads asking the roughly 23,500 active members on the forum to stop using terminology that is firmly entrenched in the vocabulary of the forum members.

 

[Dampmaskin]

I agree that analogs is a kinda non sequitur name for stinkies, and I don't like it myself, but oh my... so much wrongness in one thread.

Light switches aren't digital? Regulated mods aren't digital? (Well some of them aren't, but that's beside this point.)

Digital watches aren't digital??? ! ? !

Why do some people have to be so absolute and assertive about topics they very obviously have very limited and incomplete knowledge about?

 

[Ken_A]

I will stop saying analogue for tobacco products once everyone stops saying e-cig for vaping products

In other words, it's useless to attempt to change a community of over 1,000. How hard do you think our millions are gonna be to change

 

[Kim B.]

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.

Roger that. BTW, me thinks this may escalate from a

to a FUBAR situation PDQ.
And don't call me Shirley.....

 

[Zealous]

I could care less about them being called analogs. I WOULD like to see them stop being called stinkies though. Whether cigarettes stink is really subjective. Some people like the smell of tobacco. It's the smell of stale cigarettes on things/people that stinks.

 

[Iffy]

Whew!

 

[cbrite]

I don't think anyone's been forced to use "analog." If you want to call cigs analogs or cigs or smokes or whatever, it seems to be okay with everyone here. Free country and all.

 

[yzer]

I don't like the term "analog" applied to cigarettes. Prospective e-cigarette users must think they have landed at a cult site when they try to learn something in the New Members Forum. These people are looking to find something simple and effective to help them quit smoking and they see analog, TH, cloud chasing and sub ohm. They think they have to buy a mech and start winding micro coils or they are using inferior gear.

When I became interested in e-cigarettes as a possible route to smoking cessation I came to ECF after a Google search lead me here. I spent the first three days trying to translate the geek speak and lingo.

I guess I made it but how many others less patient than I just gave up on the e-cigarette idea or stuck with a convenience store e-cig.

Anyway, I guess calling cigarettes "analogs" helps quitters to demonize smoking, get angry at something other than their poor choice to smoke in the first place and struggle on with life. I'd feel a bit silly calling a cigarette an "analog" in front of my non-vaping and non-smoking friends.

 

[RattlerX]

Popcorn anyone….

 

[28if]

The whole world's living in a digital dream
It's not really there
It's all on the screen
Makes me forget who I am
I'm an analog man
- Joe Walsh from the song Analog Man

For the record I have been Analog free for ~ 2 months!