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Originally Posted by MGlitch
If we’re going to snipe over word choices can we stop with digital media vs real media. It should be physical media as being digital makes it no less real. Unless we’re all hallucinating reading the ebooks and audiobooks we read. I’ll let y’all decide which you think is more likely but my money is on digital media being every bit as real as physical media.
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Wow, strange bedfellows, to be sure. Another Festivus miracle.
Real as in not virtual is an accepted definition and the meaning was clear in its context. Frankly, I tend to think it’s helpful myself, as there’s that tendency to conflate real and virtual and think that what applies to one necessarily or ought to apply to the other. Using “real” is a reality check, so to speak.