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Sat 8 Mar, 2014 03:11 pm
To give a presentation, usually students will store a powerpoint file on a USB, insert it into the port on/in the computer, and open the file, showing the content on a screen, with a projector.
1. ON/IN, which one?
2. Is it natural English to say?:
-Do you have a powerpoint?
-I don't have a powerpoint, but I'll give them handouts.
@WBYeats,
Tough questions.
ON/IN the computer. 'IN' is probably technically correct, but you will hear both about equally often.
PowerPoint is a program, of course, but used this way, the meaning is "Do you have a PowerPoint
presentation". Dropping the word 'presentation' is fairly natural in common usage, but it is an adjective describing nothing without the word 'presentation'. I suggest you add the word 'presentation' or something similar.
Do you use US or UK English as your first language?
Second, in that situation, I do have a presentation, but not a powerpoint file; can this powerpoint file be called A POWERPOINT?
@WBYeats,
1. ON/IN, which one?
On a computer. These ports are on the outside of computers, not inside computers.
@WBYeats,
US English.
If it's a computerized presentation that mimics PowerPoint, I suppose you could refer to it that way in speech. I'm not sure if you should use the name in print if it's not the actual product. Of course, your area might have very liberal laws regarding intellectual property.
@roger,
I wonder if the answer would be different in UK.
@WBYeats,
WBYeats wrote:
Do you use US or UK English as your first language?
Second, in that situation, I do have a presentation, but not a powerpoint file; can this powerpoint file be called A POWERPOINT?
US English.
Microsoft would love that to be a thing. It does get its point across to the listener/reader. I'm not so sure it has been made into an actual recognized noun in the English vernacular. I think it's still just considered a brand name for the well recognized slide-based presentation program. It's likely to be the most popular or one of the most popular slide-based presentation program in business.
@WBYeats,
To give a presentation, usually students will store a powerpoint file on a USB, insert it into the port on/in the computer, and open the file, showing the content on a screen, with a projector.
Aren't files and folders stored on Zip drives?? and memory sticks and these are then inserted into USB ports on computers?
@roger,
roger wrote:
US English.
If it's a computerized presentation that mimics PowerPoint, I suppose you could refer to it that way in speech. I'm not sure if you should use the name in print if it's not the actual product. Of course, your area might have very liberal laws regarding intellectual property.
Q-tip is a name brand but as far as I can remember also the most prefered noun in English conversational speech to use instead of cotton swabs.
@WBYeats,
Second, in that situation, I do have a presentation, but not a powerpoint file; can this powerpoint file be called A POWERPOINT?
If it's a hard copy of a PowerPoint presentation then it seems it might be helpful to let whoever know that so that there are no misunderstandings.
@JTT,
Do you mean I can say A POWERPOINT to mean A POWERPOINT FILE/ A POWERPOINT FILE TO SHOW ON THE SCREEN?
@WBYeats,
I don't see why not, WB. We shorten stuff all the time. Some might even say "a PP".
Thank you~
According to your statement, can we simply say EMAIL for EMAIL ADDRESS?:
-I don't have your email.
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