The use of the term ‘dead cat’ for things that look like this, or this, on the ILAT list recently spurred me to ask for other examples of the term.
Many thanks to everyone who wrote back.* Do add further terms in the comments.
dead cat
windshield [Aus term]
windscreen [US term]
popshield
spoffle
fur slug (?)
shaggy dog
windsock, wind sock
furball [furry ones [...]
[more in the series of old partial posts with current relevance.. this one edited since it's been pointed out that the original post was rather cryptic.]
I had a bunch of new equipment to take to the field last year:
new earphones (much smaller than my previous travel pair)
SD digi video
Edirol R-09 (used before, but not in [...]
I used mine for data entry with speakers for the first time this most recent field trip, so I thought I would post something about it.
Pros:
It allowed relatively fast data entry, and saved a lot of rewriting.
It obviated my need for a printer.
Speakers adjusted to the replacement orthography very easily (my PDA cannot display Unicode or [...]
I’ve had a bit of a computer saga over the last year or two. If someone wrote a play about it (and what a boring play it would be) they might call it “Death of a motherboard”. But it was also not powerful enough for decently running sound files, it took ages to load stuff, [...]
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Convince me in favour or against a new Intel Mac with dual boot. This is currently a hypothetical purchase, but I am starting to evaluate options for a new laptop. I need to do all the average things that field linguists do, plus voice recognition (ideally under windows so I don’t have to retrain the [...]
I’ve been playing around with noise reduction features of different software programs, to remove hiss, fans, air conditioners and wind noise. Here’s a very impressionistic report on the programs I tried.
I should mention first off that I won’t be doing any acoustic analysis on the doctored files, at least at this stage. I was doing [...]
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