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> because something is, common, accepted, or written in stone, doesn’t mean it’s correct

When it comes to language, it sort of does.

> should have looked at them like they had two heads and said “What the fuck did you just call the power point

Presentation decks pre-date PowerPoint. (I think it derives from how a deck of slides resembles a deck of cards?)

Makes more sense to me than tape decks, anyway.



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