I'd like to know if "based off" has completely superseded "based on".
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:42:27 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
I'd like to know if "based off" has completely superseded "based
on".
On 04/01/26 16:04, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:42:27 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
I'd like to know if "based off" has completely superseded "based
on".
Personally, I'm still struggling with "across". "Please stay across ABC >Radio, where our reporters will keep you across the progress of the fire
that has just jumped across the highway."
On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 16:59:27 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:
On 04/01/26 16:04, Steve Hayes wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:42:27 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
I'd like to know if "based off" has completely superseded "based
on".
Personally, I'm still struggling with "across". "Please stay across ABC
Radio, where our reporters will keep you across the progress of the fire
that has just jumped across the highway."
I haven't seen that for a while.
I've just discovered that "dropped" is becoming a conntranym, or
perhaps like "table" (vb) coming to mean different things in different places.
I've always thought that "the idea was dropped" mean that the idea was abandfoned, but it seems that some people are now using to mean that
the idea was launched.
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists
releasing an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in this group are old enough to imagine that as a record dropping onto the turntable,
Den 04.01.2026 kl. 23.29 skrev Snidely:
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists
releasing an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in
this group are old enough to imagine that as a record dropping
onto the turntable,
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on
the turntable.
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded with multiple
discs. As one finished playing, the next would be dropped down. I
haven't seen one for many years, though.
Den 04.01.2026 kl. 23.29 skrev Snidely:
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists releasing >> an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in this group are old >> enough to imagine that as a record dropping onto the turntable,
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on the turntable.
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on
the turntable.
No stacks on an automatic spindle?
On 05/01/26 16:09, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Den 04.01.2026 kl. 23.29 skrev Snidely:
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists
releasing an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in
this group are old enough to imagine that as a record dropping
onto the turntable,
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on
the turntable.
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded with multiple
discs. As one finished playing, the next would be dropped down. I
haven't seen one for many years, though.
On 05/01/26 16:09, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Den 04.01.2026 kl. 23.29 skrev Snidely:
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists
releasing an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in
this group are old enough to imagine that as a record dropping
onto the turntable,
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on
the turntable.
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded with multiple
discs. As one finished playing, the next would be dropped down. I
haven't seen one for many years, though.
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> posted:
On 05/01/26 16:09, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Den 04.01.2026 kl. 23.29 skrev Snidely:
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists
releasing an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in
this group are old enough to imagine that as a record dropping
onto the turntable,
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on
the turntable.
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded with multiple discs. As one finished playing, the next would be dropped down. I
haven't seen one for many years, though.
That worked well with 78s, but less well with LPs, because the more scratchable surface was more easily damaged by having one unprotected
one over another.
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded
with multiple discs. As one finished playing, the next would
be dropped down. I haven't seen one for many years, though.
Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:
On 05/01/26 16:09, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Den 04.01.2026 kl. 23.29 skrev Snidely:
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists
releasing an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in
this group are old enough to imagine that as a record dropping
onto the turntable,
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on
the turntable.
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded with multiple discs. As one finished playing, the next would be dropped down. I
haven't seen one for many years, though.
Sets of 78s that made up a long classical work were sold in two
versions, normal and auto-coupling. The sides were arranged
differently:
NORMAL
Part 1 = Disc 1 Side A
Part 2 = Disc 1 Side B
Part 3 = Disc 2 Side A
Part 4 = Disc 2 Side B
Part 5 = Disc 3 Side A
Part 6 = Disc 3 Side B
Part 7 = Disc 4 Side A
Part 8 = Disc 4 Side B
Part 9 = Disc 5 Side A
Part 10 = Disc 5 Side B
Part 11 = Disc 6 Side A
Part 12 = Disc 6 Side B
AUTO-COUPLING
Part 1 = Disc 1 Side A
Part 2 = Disc 2 Side A
Part 3 = Disc 3 Side A
Part 4 = Disc 4 Side A
Part 5 = Disc 5 Side A
Part 6 = Disc 6 Side A
Part 7 = Disc 6 Side B
Part 8 = Disc 5 Side B
Part 9 = Disc 4 Side B
Part 10 = Disc 3 Side B
Part 11 = Disc 2 Side B
Part 12 = Disc 1 Side B
There was also a third arrangement known as Broadcast Coupling which was
used to give a continuous performance when two turntables were
available. Broadcast coupling was only used internally by radio
stations and wasn't available for commercial pressings.
BROADCAST COUPLING
Part 1 = Disc 1 Side A
Part 2 = Disc 2 Side A
Part 3 = Disc 1 Side B
Part 4 = Disc 2 Side B
Part 5 = Disc 3 Side A
Part 6 = Disc 4 Side A
Part 7 = Disc 3 Side B
Part 8 = Disc 4 Side B
Part 9 = Disc 5 Side A
Part 10 = Disc 6 Side A
Part 11 = Disc 5 Side B
Part 12 = Disc 6 Side B
Peter Moylan wrote:
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded
with multiple discs. As one finished playing, the next would
be dropped down. I haven't seen one for many years, though.
They were fashionable when singles were a thing... singles
being the small 7" records that were also called 45's, as they
spun at a different speed to LP's. (45 rpm as opposed to 33 1/3
rpm... or 78 rpm.)
You could load four/five singles on the one we had back in the
day, and generally they'd drop and play properly... but not
always.
On 05/01/26 16:09, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
Den 04.01.2026 kl. 23.29 skrev Snidely:
I've seen that for quite a while in the context of music artists
releasing an album or sometimes an important single. Many of us in
-athis group are old enough to imagine that as a record dropping
onto the turntable,
That wouldn't occur to me. I was always careful when placing an lp on
-athe turntable.
There used to be record players that could be pre-loaded with multiple
discs. As one finished playing, the next would be dropped down. I
haven't seen one for many years, though.
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