Multimedia and multiple media?

[nq:1]Is there a slight difference between multimedia and multiple media? Multimedia reminds me of video, sound, websites, CD and DVD. ... signs and produce these items for customers. Is it better to say I deal with multiple media instead of multimedia?[/nq]
How impressed do you want your customers to be?

[nq:1]Is there a slight difference between multimedia and multiple media? Multimedia reminds me of video, sound, websites, CD and DVD. ... signs and produce these items for customers. Is it better to say I deal with multiple media instead of multimedia?[/nq]
I'd skip it altogether and say you deal with images on many types of promotional items and materials. (You are right that "multimedia" is

Mark Leanne turpitued:
[nq:1]Is there a slight difference between multimedia and multiple media?[/nq]
If you want to sound respectable, avoid both terms.

Multimedia means music and pictures. The inventors of the term used the "multi" prefix in the hope that one day they would think of a third medium. So far they haven't had much luck.

In the computing world there are two

[nq:1]Mark Leanne turpitued:[/nq]
[nq:2]Is there a slight difference between multimedia and multiple media?[/nq]
[nq:1]If you want to sound respectable, avoid both terms. Multimedia means music and pictures. The inventors of the term used the "multi" prefix in the hope that one day they would think of a third medium. So far they haven't had much luck.[/nq]
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[nq:1]In the comput

[nq:2]Is there a slight difference between multimedia and multiple media? ... to say I deal with multiple media instead of multimedia?[/nq]
[nq:1]How impressed do you want your customers to be?[/nq]
Very. But how would that matter?

[nq:1]... If you're not into *********** and you don't want to sound like a wunch of bankers you can live without multimedia.[/nq]
A wunch of bankers - I love it. Today I also spotted a nice one in the Daily Telegraph which I quote:
Jockeying for names
If the Jockey Club didn't already exist, someone would have to invent it. One of the duties performed by racing's governing body is to

[nq:2]How impressed do you want your customers to be?[/nq]
[nq:1]Very. But how would that matter?[/nq]
That say "multimedia," it has more pizzazz. And technically you're right aren't plastic bags and paper cups two different media?

[nq:1]Very reminiscent of the classic Coor's Hunt - a sporting event staged in the Bay Area here many years ago and well on it's way before somebody mentioned the magic word spoonerism.[/nq]
Are you changing your name to Jit'se?

[nq:2]Very reminiscent of the classic Coor's Hunt - a sporting ... on it's way before somebody mentioned the magic word spoonerism.[/nq]
[nq:1]Are you changing your name to Jit'se?[/nq]
Touché! (as they say in the old country) But in my defense I must claim that the apostrophe was put there to make the spoonerized version grammatically correct.
You do however put me in mind that I migh

[nq:2]Are you changing your name to Jit'se?[/nq]
[nq:1]Touché! (as they say in the old country) But in my defense I must claim that the apostrophe was put ... the famous Chinese Leader Ji Tse, who together with his brother Mao Tse and cousin Ped Xing started a revolution.[/nq]
I always thought Ped Xing was Vietnamese.