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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 12:55 PM EDT |
| I would think he meant "PhotoShop" to change the image. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
For the friends of sloppy language "shopping" is a short form of
"photo-shopping" (which for some reason doesn't mean buying a
photograph) that can be spelled out as "Treating and modifying a picture
using Adobe PhotoShop".
Treating language with respect has gone out of fashion.
Exact language needs unmuddled thought.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 01:07 PM EDT |
While "shop" may not - in a given dictionary - mean to alter a photograph,
that has been a common term in the software photo manipulation industry for a
couple decades.
A "term of art" if you will.
This probably stemmed
from Adobe's Photoshop software. Much like the average non-technical person
thinks in terms of "windows" rather then "desktop" when discussing the computer
desktop simply because they are more familiar with MS Windows.
Abend has
been in the computing industry since about the 60's. While it is in the
dictionary you specified, it can not be found in Merriam Websters
online dictionary.
To photoshop an image can be found in the Urban
Dictionary.
So here's the magical question:
Which dictionary
should one consider to be the "official" version and pretend words in use in
industry don't actually exist because they're not in that dictionary?
Or...
should one recognize that new meanings are required when new behaviors are
identified and accept that it takes time for dictionaries to catch up?
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Wednesday, August 08 2012 @ 06:27 PM EDT |
'shop v. slang abbreviation for photoshop, meaning to use Photoshop or
equivalent software to alter a digital image.
If I said "You can't find the slang term 'shop in the dictionary"
would you show me that none of the dictionary definitions of cant allow that
sentence to make sense?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cant
cant
n.
1. Angular deviation from a vertical or horizontal plane or surface; an
inclination or slope.
2. A slanted or oblique surface.
3.
a. A thrust or motion that tilts something.
b. The tilt caused by such a thrust or motion.
4. An outer corner, as of a building.
v. cant·ed, cant·ing, cants
v.tr.
1. To set at an oblique angle; tilt.
2. To give a slanting edge to; bevel.
3. To change the direction of suddenly.
v.intr.
1. To lean to one side; slant.
2. To take an oblique direction or course; swing around, as a ship.
n.
1. Monotonous talk filled with platitudes.
2. Hypocritically pious language.
3. The special vocabulary peculiar to the members of an underworld group;
argot.
4. Cant See Shelta.
5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
6. The special terminology understood among the members of a profession,
discipline, or class but obscure to the general population; jargon. See Synonyms
at dialect.
intr.v. cant·ed, cant·ing, cants
1. To speak tediously or sententiously; moralize.
2. To speak in argot or jargon.
3. To speak in a whining, pleading tone.
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