Monday, November 03, 2008

Logging: one for the grammarians. Or possibly grammaticians.

Logging: why the timber industry is trying to take over the internet for nefarious but as yet unclear purposes.

on/off
 
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in/out
 
 5

shake it all about, stick in some ice, hey presto, a rat's arse cocktail.
 
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sign please
 
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Question:
(I've just been simultaneously on the facebook and HSBC websites, which have different approaches to this)

Does one log on? And then subsequently log off? Or does one log in, then out? And having logged in, is it then possible to log off? Does logging on preclude logging out

Should we all be signing in, instead?

7 comments:

Paul M said...

I use them interchangably because the people I speak to do, but I log on to a network and log in to a service. I sign in to a hotel.

Peter S said...

Sorry, the habits of 30+ years says "login/out"
[EDIT] On second thoughts, make that "login/ctrl-D"

Paul ◘ said...

loggin. YOYO

Andrew C said...

Login/clear cookies

Jonathan Phillips said...

Aside, when I was working in Brussels in 2005, it seemed oddly comical to pronounce login and logout using the full French pronunciation: Login (Log-uun) and Logout (Log-ooo)

Doctor Curry said...

What I hate are people who concatenate the words, especially thusly: login.

Andrew C said...

You mean portmanteauwords?