Why do you call cigarettes "analogs"?

[NCC]

I responded to a thread earlier this evening, in which I expressed my feeling that calling a cigarette, an analog is ... well, kinda dumb.


When I was a newbie, I initially did the same because I saw everyone else doing it.

But, seriously, isn't it kinda silly? What is the logical reasoning behind this?

Why the aversion to calling cigarettes, uh, cigarettes? That's what they are.

What is the problem with calling a spade a spade????

 

[FreakyStylie]

Probably easier to type more than anything. Analog has less letters and balances between the left and right hand when typing. Plus, anything that isn't electronic is referred to as analog. Even art. It's a fad. I find myself thinking "smokes" more than "analog" at my point in this journey. IDK

 

[NCC]

Freaky ... is it mainly a newbie thing? Or do old timers hang onto the analog thing?

I smoked cigarettes for more than 35 years. They're cigarettes so far as I'm concerned. heh.

 

[Arsenic]

Newbie thing or not, some for the vendors (V4L in particular), seem to call them that as well.

-[Arsenic]

 

[hiram13pm]

It's a play on the old vs. new... remember when CD's first appeared? Suddenly "recordings" became "analog recordings" vs. "digital recordings". Think of us vapers as being the first kids on the block to ditch the turntables and go "digital" with that copy of Van Halen I.

Yes, I'm aware that our stuff is technically 'electronic', not 'digital'... but it makes sense if you think of it that way.

 

[seanmc]

We started calling them that about 3-4yrs ago...its funny, I remember we're all chatting away on the boards and I can't remember who started it...but we all noticed it...and it stuck.

 

[Kelemvor]

Probably easier to type more than anything. Analog has less letters and balances between the left and right hand when typing.

pyro is much shorter

 

[Arsenic]

Yes, I'm aware that our stuff is technically 'electronic', not 'digital'... but it makes sense if you think of it that way.

Can't say for sure, but many lithium batteries do have a microchip embedded in them that is used for calibrating the charge readings, and to prevent battery cells from "flipping" their charge, as you would have if you overdischarged a cordless drill's litium battery (no chip), which would ruin it...

Current laptop and mobile phone batteries are equipped with those chips for sure, though i don't know if e-cigs would be

-[Arsenic]

Edit:... wait, that wouldn't be always digital either... so yeah... but the name still sticks

some of those IC's are analog, but not the ones on a laptop battery that i was thinking about, which are... i'm sure somebody's seen those batteries with 4 LEDs that show charge level when you press a button


Edit2: a cell phone battery chip @Flikr.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/uwehermann/4816045521/in/set-72157624429150831/

 

[FreakyStylie]

Freaky ... is it mainly a newbie thing? Or do old timers hang onto the analog thing?

I smoked cigarettes for more than 35 years. They're cigarettes so far as I'm concerned. heh.

I'm still a newbie, so maybe that has something to do with it. I have noticed that I don't refer to them as analogs quite as much. Part intentionally - so people will find the posts when they are googling, and part because, yeah, they're cigarettes. 21 or so years of smoking for me. Done, and done. That's all I really care about.

It's a play on the old vs. new... remember when CD's first appeared? Suddenly "recordings" became "analog recordings" vs. "digital recordings". Think of us vapers as being the first kids on the block to ditch the turntables and go "digital" with that copy of Van Halen I.

Yes, I'm aware that our stuff is technically 'electronic', not 'digital'... but it makes sense if you think of it that way.

Vinyl. I got stacks of wax! But I can fit all of it on one thumb drive and have room left for the rest of my CDs too. I love listening to my records, but having my entire music collection on a drive I can put in my pocket and insert into my car stereo, tv, and any computer is just wonderful!

 

[FreakyStylie]

pyro is much shorter

LOL . . . yeah . . . I remember, back in the day, we used to light up a C. It was crazy. But, what can you say? We were young.

 

[chimney55]

I responded to a thread earlier this evening, in which I expressed my feeling that calling a cigarette, an analog is ... well, kinda dumb.


When I was a newbie, I initially did the same because I saw everyone else doing it.

But, seriously, isn't it kinda silly? What is the logical reasoning behind this?

Why the aversion to calling cigarettes, uh, cigarettes? That's what they are.

What is the problem with calling a spade a spade????

Nevermind, I totally misunderstood the original post.

 

[fishmaniac]

I have used and still use frajos, yoce, smokes, DB (dam bae) or cigs. And I agree, analog is silly.

 

[Java_Az]

I was always partial to "nail in the coffin" I vote we call them that. Second place would go to "cancer sticks".

 

[Satans_Monkey]

Nic-sticks I think would be more suited... It's catchy and you can call the "analogs" < star wars reference> death sticks < /star wars reference> best of all... I just thought of it!

 

[Stifle]

i was a lemming and just started calling them "analogs" when I started. I get the word play and all of that...but at some point I saw a newbie being corrected for saying "cigarette" and it became clear how dumb it was.

I'll probably still refer to them as a number of different things...but call them what you'd like..they are still cigarettes.

 

[AttyPops]

Yeah. I'm not really fond of any of the terms..... thinking about it a bit, I believe it stems from the original naming of the PV as an e-cigarette. Now, for marketing reasons, that makes sense. But .... it is really a personal vaporizer, or vaporizer, or something. Not an e-cig. But, we don't often get to select the names, we just deal with em. It might have helped the whole cause if we had avoided the "cig" part of the name altogether. Less confusion.

The need then arises to differentiate between e-cigs and cigs. So, since the PV was named e-cig, people use "analog" as a contrast to "digital cig" (which it often isn't). Analog vs Digital is a norm in electronics. So to be "tech savy" and "with the times" we call em analogs and e-cigs. It's just one of those "going with the flow" things. Like Stifle said: "lemming".

On the pun side: .... log, works well with "stinkies" too. lol.

I'm with you... cig is cig. (I'm guilty of "lemmingness" too tho.) lol. PV or e-cig is the new stuff. Cig, old stuff.

On another note... look at urban dictionary and other such sources and see the general degradation of the language into "cleaver" often vulgar babble. Language has often devolved as other parts of it evolve. Slang in particular. It's just that the internet makes it easier and quicker to "coin a term/phrase". So whatever "catches on" fastest wins. It's not always what is "best" for the language, or the most descriptive/proper term that comes out on top. It's kind of a "chicken or egg" thing. Popularity vs construction. OTOH, where do we get any of our terms? Do we differentiate between the ventricular and "proper" speech anywhere other than in academia?

Man, I'm losing my "street cred" fast here.... lol. So in the end, it's a popularity contest. "Analog" is perceived as cleaver, cute, pun-tastic by people "In the know". Remember too, that "cliques" often invent their own (often exclusive) terminology. Then we spend all our time in the "new member forum" discussing learning curve. lol. We people are funny.

So......"Analog" is shnazy.

 

[Bozzlite]

At first I used the term analog here on this forum because that seemed to be what everyone else was calling cigarettes. And, analog is much easier to type than cigarette.

Even tho I consider myself a fairly proficient typist/keyboarder, I still have to stop and think every time I type the word cigarette. Is it two "r's" or two "t's"? LOL.

Now, I just call them cigs.

 

[Vermonster13]

Call them anything you like, every term for them other than cigarette is just another slang so no biggie. DO what makes you happy and allow others the same freedom.

 

[Zal42]

I responded to a thread earlier this evening, in which I expressed my feeling that calling a cigarette, an analog is ... well, kinda dumb.

I'm with you. I call them "cigarettes." My personal vaoprizer is a pv. I hate when cigarettes are called analogs, as they are no more or less analog than pvs are, and it sounds silly and pretentious.

Also, another pet peeve of mine: when you let juice rest to improve it, it's not "steeping" (steeping is to "completely soak or allow to infuse"). You're really allowing time for diffusion (and possibly oxidation) to take place.

 

[JTman]

The first time I heard analog in reference to a cigarette I thought it was quite comical. But like Vermonster said, call it whatever you want, slang is slang.