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Poll: Have you named your computer(s)? Please share 论题张贴者: ProZ.com Staff
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For PCs name of the city where they are and number, for laptops abbreviation "Lap" and number but it's hardly a name?
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Ivana Kahle 
德国
Local time: 11:27
正式会员 (自2007)
German德语译成Croatian克罗地亚语
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| Another Dell Boy | Apr 5, 2011 |
@ Alexandra
I used to call my first computer Dell Boy too
Now I have two other computers and they don't have names - I simply call them "my desktop" and "my laptop".
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... I call my computer or my laptop bæstet - the beast when I'm annoyed with it. Usually in a wail for HELP from my husband who can sometimes tame it.
Otherwise it is my puter as opposed to his puter.
Actually he has three and I have two, and when not in use he puts the laptops in a safe place... or so he thinks.
Since the summer holiday two years ago, my flat screen has been locked to the desk with a bicycle chain and we can't find the key. ![]() ... See more
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although maybe I should
hmmmm bibliotheca internetis
(no I'm sure that a Latinist will correct my declination if I got it wrong )
[Edited at 2011-04-05 13:31 GMT]
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I guess my pcs have several names, none of them is good, apart maybe from "baby" which is the way I called them when I'm really desperate and they keep not working.... the rest are all the bad words I can imagine everytime they have problems....;-)
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| I used to call my first computer... | Apr 5, 2011 |
...Silly Billy, as it never did what I wanted it to, playing games all time, so to speak. Those days, I didn't see it was actually me making it behave funny
My laptop is called Schleppi
[Bearbeitet am 2011-04-05 11:42 GMT]
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Joy Lewis
巴巴多斯
Local time: 06:27
French法语译成English英语
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| It hadn't occurred to me to name it | Apr 5, 2011 |
Although if I did, it wouldn't be printable. I have on many occasions, however, promised to employ Beckham-like tactics to escort it through the window, post haste. The speed of the thing drives me to distraction. 
[Edited at 2011-04-05 12:01 GMT]
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| Functional names | Apr 5, 2011 |
My old laptop was called The Hairdryer.
The Macbook Pro I got to replace it is called The Silver Goddess.
I think you can work out the rationale for both...
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Thayenga
德国
Local time: 11:27
正式会员 (自2009)
English英语译成German德语
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| Yes, though partially unintenionally | Apr 5, 2011 |
My desktop is named for the one who gave it to me brandnew: Olly.
I never thought about naming my laptop, but... one day I sorted out tons of "souvenirs" and came across a sticker I had bought years ago in Wyoming. That day I thought it a good idea to just stick it on my laptop's case. So now it's called: Cheyenne, named for the state capital of Wyoming.  ... See more
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Dalibor Uhlik
捷克共和国
Local time: 11:27
正式会员 (自2009)
English英语译成Czech捷克语
I didn't give a name to it but sometimes I talk with it or grumble at it ... how have you been...come on, faster etc.
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Thayenga
德国
Local time: 11:27
正式会员 (自2009)
English英语译成German德语
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| Oh that kind of naming. | Apr 5, 2011 |
Dalibor Uhlik wrote:
I didn't give a name to it but sometimes I talk with it or grumble at it ... how have you been...come on, faster etc.
I do that, too. And these names/grumblings/mumblings etc. are not printable here. Especially not when my laptop crashed during a conversation with a client and only minutes after I've started that project. grrrrrrrrrrr is the only printable version of what I called my laptop.
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Every computer/MacBook etc. has a name:
Freddy
PhAntoMac
Alfry
External hard-disks:
Gino
Pino
Half-Terron
Full-Terron
Black-Terron
and so on
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but the washing machine is Betty, and the wardrobe is Arnold.
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| Turkish: ''karakurt, kara ceylan, koca oğlan... | Apr 5, 2011 |
My desktop computer: ''karakurt'' -> (english= black wolf)
My notebook: ''kara ceylan'' -> (english= black gazelle)
My old desktop computer: ''koca oğlan'' -> (english= old boy)
My laptop: ''akkiraz'' -> (english= white cherry)
My internet modem: ''acun'' -> (english= the world)
My printer: ''yazıcı kız'' -> (english= printer girl)
 ... See more My desktop computer: ''karakurt'' -> (english= black wolf)
My notebook: ''kara ceylan'' -> (english= black gazelle)
My old desktop computer: ''koca oğlan'' -> (english= old boy)
My laptop: ''akkiraz'' -> (english= white cherry)
My internet modem: ''acun'' -> (english= the world)
My printer: ''yazıcı kız'' -> (english= printer girl)
Anadolu'dan selamlar
Saludos desde Anatolia
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Valeria Fuma
阿根廷
Local time: 07:27
English英语译成Spanish西班牙语
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... is the name of my Dell laptop
And yes, when it gets slow, I use other vocatives not that friendly.
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