Burning CD's

Josenildo Marques typed thus:
[nq:1]"I have just burned a CD." To me, the use of "burn" in the sentence above is almost unquestionably metaphorical. ... laser beam actually hits the CD surface and burns it. Good point, eh !? What say you, O list ?[/nq]
I am not the list, but I come to bear witness to the list. Will I do?
I say it's burning. Literally. The word is apt and correct. One c

Josenildo Marques (Email Removed) wrote on 12 Feb 2004:
[nq:1]"I have just burned a CD." To me, the use of "burn" in the sentence above is almost unquestionably metaphorical. ... laser beam actually hits the CD surface and burns it. Good point, eh !? What say you, O list ?[/nq]
I'd say your friend is both right and wrong, but I use "burn" and "make" ("create" is out the window, I'm afraid)

[nq:1]I am not the list, but I come to bear witness to the list. Will I do?[/nq]
I do not know...But I do know there is nothing wrong with my sentence.
[nq:1]I say it's burning. Literally. The word is apt and correct. One could argue that it isn't entirely true for ... at the list and we of the list do not separate final punctuation marks from the end of our sentences.[/nq]
I do not kn

[nq:2]BTW, we at the list and we of the list do not separate final punctuation marks from the end of our sentences.[/nq]
[nq:1]I do not know what you mean.[/nq]
You had written
Good point, eh !?
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and
What say you, O list ?
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The spaces marked with the "^" should be omitted.

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]The spaces marked with the "[/nq]^" should be omitted.

Provided that everyone is using the same font metrics as Skitt is. Harly likely.
He means the spaces before end-punctuation.
Seems an odd thing to comment on ... but then
this is AUE.

Michael West

[nq:2]The spaces marked with the "[/nq]^" should be omitted.
[nq:1]Provided that everyone is using the same font metrics as Skitt is. Harly likely.[/nq]
Ah, yes. I expected someone to comment on that. Those who want to properly see tables or marked items, such as the ones I marked (something that happens every so often in this group), know which fonts to use (clue: the monospaced ones).

[nq:1]Those who want to properly see tables or marked items, such as the ones I marked (something that happens every so often in this group), know which fonts to use (clue: the monospaced ones).[/nq]
Possibly, but would someone who didn't understand
the comment in the first instance know that?
(No matter, he does now.)

Michael West

Agree with your friend. Check temperature of a recently recorded CD-W.

On service, 1 abraço.

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Skitt infrared:
[nq:2]I do not know what you mean.[/nq]
[nq:1]You had written Good point, eh !?[/nq]^
[nq:1]and What say you, O list ?[/nq]^
[nq:1]The spaces marked with the "[/nq]^" should be omitted.

Point of clarification: they should be omitted when writing English. Those spaces are compulsory in some other languages.

The original poster will probably find it

[nq:1]"I have just burned a CD." To me, the use of "burn" in the sentence above is almost unquestionably metaphorical. ... laser beam actually hits the CD surface and burns it. Good point, eh !? What say you, O list ?[/nq]
Funny how metaphors can fold back on themselves, so you can't tell whether it's a metaphor anymore or not. In the song "Sweet Baby James", James Taylor sings:
Now the fi