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0 pointsiguanayou2y ago0 comments

At least they stopped putting "My" in front of everything.

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Be that as it may, I would nevertheless campaign for “My Mistakes” as the log folder.

But that was just brutal honesty: it's not your computer anymore.

I've never liked the "my" prefix for labels because it wasn't immediately obvious whether "my" referred to me, or to the person/company/entity/software which created the thing.

This is particularly annoying when error messages are written from the point of view of an entity or fictitious person, e.g. "Sorry, I wasn't able to..." but things on screen are labeled "My..." Is "me" the user or the software?

bitwize2y ago

Back in the Windows 9x days, Windows didn't refer to itself with first-person pronouns. That was a development that occurred a few years after "My Computer" morphed into "This PC".

Log_out_2y ago

My Lions! My Tigers! My Bears! Oh my!

inglor_cz2y ago

So, Thycrosoft now?

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inopinatus2y ago

Be that as it may, I would nevertheless campaign for “My Mistakes” as the log folder.

bitwize2y ago

But that was just brutal honesty: it's not your computer anymore.

kmoser2y ago

I've never liked the "my" prefix for labels because it wasn't immediately obvious whether "my" referred to me, or to the person/company/entity/software which created the thing.

bitwize2y ago

Back in the Windows 9x days, Windows didn't refer to itself with first-person pronouns. That was a development that occurred a few years after "My Computer" morphed into "This PC".

Log_out_2y ago

My Lions! My Tigers! My Bears! Oh my!

inglor_cz2y ago

So, Thycrosoft now?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse