Mission Impossible: Changing the term "steeping" to "aging."

[cmdebrecht]

Ah, isn't the English language wonderful? It's always changing. Did you know that "literally" can now also mean it's opposite?

I can live with the terms. However, I think Anjaffm nailed the term for steeping- maturing. It's much more fitting than aging. What do you think?

From Dictionary.com

mature

adjective 
1. complete in natural growth or development
2. ripe, as fruit, or fully aged, as cheese or wine.
4. pertaining to or characteristic of full development
5. completed, perfected, or elaborated in full by the mind: mature plans.

verb (used with object)
12. to make mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
13. to bring to full development
14. to complete or perfect.

verb (used without object)
15. to become mature; ripen, as fruit or cheese.
16. to come to full development


Age

Noun
1. the length of time during which a being or thing has existed; length of life or existence to the time spoken of or referred to: trees of unknown age; His age is 20 years.
2. a period of human life, measured by years from birth, usually marked by a certain stage or degree of mental or physical development and involving legal responsibility and capacity: the age of discretion; the age of consent; The state raised the drinking age from 18 to 21 years.
3. the particular period of life at which a person becomes naturally or conventionally qualified or disqualified for anything: He was over age for military duty.
4. one of the periods or stages of human life: a person of middle age.
5. advanced years; old age: His eyes were dim with age.

verb (used without object)
15. to grow old: He is aging rapidly.
16. to mature, as wine, cheese, or wood: a heavy port that ages slowly.


The more I think about it, the more I like maturing instead of steeping.

I'm going to let it mature for another week.
I'm going to vape Creme Caramel while my ADV is maturing.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if everyone reading this thread started using maturing instead of steeping.

Misuse of the word literally makes me figuratively insane.

I vote for "mature!"

 

[Robino1]

We're all flipping Nuts!

No news here....

 

[EvilZoe]

We're all flipping Nuts!

No news here....

I have yet to ever flip a nut.

 

[Iffy]

I have yet to ever flip a nut.

I take it you're not a male dat ever slipped off a boy's bike seat...

 

[Ryedan]

I have yet to ever flip a nut.

Just hang here with the rest of us loonies ... your time will come

 

[EvilZoe]

I take it you're not a male dat ever slipped off a boy's bike seat...

Nope. Never been a male....lol

Just hang here with the rest of us loonies ... your time will come

I never said I wasn't a loony.

 

[Asbestos4004]

Nope. Never been a male....lol




I never said I wasn't a loony.

She's loony...I saw her run naked through another thread! Nice bottom coil....

 

[DC2]

Just checking in from our yesterday's "aging" posts. So have we decided to start an underground movement to make Aging our new catch phrase / word to use in place of the "S" word ?

I think "maturing" is gaining momentum.

And many thanks to DVap for showing up here in this humble thread.
I think we can all agree that he has settled the matter once and for all.

 

[madqatter]

Steeping is soaking a solid substance in a liquid in order to extract compounds (usually flavors) or to soften the solid.

Yep. I'm a tea addict, so "steeping" vape juice didn't make sense to me the first time I saw someone say it. Aging or maturing would require less explanation.

Also is what I have in my hand vaping on an "E-Cig" ? Isnt it just a vaporizer?

I pretty much never call a vaporizer a "cigarette" unless I'm forced to, e.g. "some people call it an 'electronic cigarette,' but I think the term is inaccurate."

 

[K_Tech]

I wish you the best of luck; might as well try to get some folks to quit calling a Pop a Soda.

 

[EvilZoe]

I wish you the best of luck; might as well try to get some folks to quit calling a Pop a Soda.

I grew up calling it pop and when I moved to Galveston for a couple of years, people didn't know what I was talking about so I switched to calling it soda....lol

 

[cloudcity]

while were at it, the word analogs should not be allowed.. I just think its stupid.

+100

"1. analogue.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to a mechanism that represents data by measurement to a continuous physical variable, as voltage or pressure.
3. displaying a readout by a pointer on a dial"

There's nothing "analog" about a cigarette. And it's just outdated and corny...

 

[suspectK]

I grew up calling it pop and when I moved to Galveston for a couple of years, people didn't know what I was talking about so I switched to calling it soda....lol

In Alabama..or just the south in general.. It is coke..lol. Luckily I half-way grew up in MA, so I learneded good words for bubble drinks.

 

[e-pipeman]

with fire!!!!!!!!!

That is a good way of burning things. There are many precedents.

 

[Ryedan]

+100

"1. analogue.
adj.
2. of or pertaining to a mechanism that represents data by measurement to a continuous physical variable, as voltage or pressure.
3. displaying a readout by a pointer on a dial"

There's nothing "analog" about a cigarette. And it's just outdated and corny...

OK, now we're talking ... I mean that puppy is either lit or not lit. No half or a quarter to it. Or in some other manner partially lit. What the heck is analog about that?!

OTOH, analog can not be outdated. Hasn't been around long enough for that. Let's just stick with it not being analog and move on

But then there is the following: 'Analog = something that bears an analogy to something else'. So, if cigarettes are analog, what do they bear an analogy to? E-cigs maybe? But cigarettes came first, so e-cigs are analogs to cigarettes. Hmm, I say we have this all backwards. E-cigs are analogs and cigs are, well, cigs.

 

[Robino1]

OK, now we're talking ... I mean that puppy is either lit or not lit. No half or a quarter to it. Or in some other manner partially lit. What the heck is analog about that?!

OTOH, analog can not be outdated. Hasn't been around long enough for that. Let's just stick with it not being analog and move on

But then there is the following: 'Analog = something that bears an analogy to something else'. So, if cigarettes are analog, what do they bear an analogy to? E-cigs maybe? But cigarettes came first, so e-cigs are analogs to cigarettes. Hmm, I say we have this all backwards. E-cigs are analogs and cigs are, well, cigs.

That was my thinking also.

I always call cigarettes.........well......cigarettes. I just couldn't get into the whole 'stinkies' and 'analogs' thing.

Most of us use the term steeping simply because that's how it was referred to when we started vaping. Remember, there was so much new terminology when I started researching just getting my first ecig. You all had your own language going on. Atty's cartomizers, clearomizer, drip tip, carto's, tanks, PG, VG and of course the term being discussed AGAIN....steeping.

Go to the New members section and start making the changes there instead of making a thread in the general section. New Members is where the terms are getting picked up then used forever more. We all know about habits, right? They are hard to break. If you catch them early, there is a better success rate.

All you have to do is start dropping the word Aging or Maturing into a few threads and the newbies will start copying it. As a newbie, we all want to fit in with our new found group of like minded people. Complaining about it in the General Section is too late. Go forth to the Newbie side. That is where change will happen.

My two cents

 

[Myrany]

hmmm I vote for using the word mature. The juice is getting older but what we are doing is allowing the flavors to blend and mature into something wonderful.

 

[t2ak]

Another vote for "mature" but I would be happy with aging.



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[Bob Chill]

I'll go with aging until it matures. Maturity is the final finished product but it has to age to get here.

I remember seeing a thread about analogs a couple months ago. I think the consensus was the ecigs are digital age and regular cigs are old tech so they are analogs.

When I first joined I had no idea why they were called analogs so my intellect latched onto the idea that they were called ....-logs. Because, you know...they taste like s***.

 

[suspectK]

I use analogue synthesizers and meters. I don't smoke them. Analogue doesn't mean "outdated technology." It is just commonly applied to it. There's a reason you will find analogue gauges on power distribution equipment and other things of that sort. Relays are being replaced by digital equipment, but you'll still find what that digital relay is monitoring is an analogue gauge.

I'll support ....-logs over analogs.. but I've tried really hard not to adopt hipster terminology, thus far. Kinda can't help it with terms like PV, mod, and other similar things. I'm sure steeping has slipped from my mouth and fingers on a few occasions.