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What do you call it /g/?

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What do you call it /g/?
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desu I mostly just call it "a USB"
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>>56228078
USB stick.
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space slice
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>Clé USB
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>>56228078
That's pretty funny. My professor called it a jump drive today in class.
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micro usb hard disk drive
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I call it "Uwe" because its short and "Uwe's B stick" sounds like USB stick.
My name is Uwe btw
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I call mine a pci-e drive. But I'm from the future and that's what we migrated to.
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>>56228078
why are flash drive and flash stick in completely different categories?

Neither are inaccurate. This is flash memory, self "flashing" EEPROM.

>mfw Americans call a self-flashing EEPROM chip with microcontroller universal serial bus-compatible device a "flash drive"
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>compliant solid state drive

Made me chuckle.
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Multi masser moobler probe
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>>56228130
What's the current Mo to MB conversion rate?
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dongle masterrace reporting in
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>>56228134
Show Uwe's A stick
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>using "dongle" unironically
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we call it 'stick' here
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>>56228078
Here in poland literally everyone calls it pendrive. Its kinda hard switching your habots like that
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Autism Detector
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>>56228078
just flash
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flash drive. but usb mass storablahblah is severe autism tier. memory stick or flash stick is much better.
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>>56228078
The "we just had this same fucking thread yesterday" thread.
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>>56228712
I ironically unironically use "dongle".
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>>56228130
USB key
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>>56228078
Where the fuck did jump drive even come from?
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Why is it called pen drive
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I say piss drive and nobody complains
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usb disk
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Almost always flash drive, but for some reason I tend to call it a USB stick if I'm using it to boot or repair an OS
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>>56228078
My teacher at college used to flip out at me if i called it a usb stick or flash drive

"Tom it is a pen drive you call it pen drive ok?"
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Stick.

Interestingly enough, almost everyone I talk to on a regular basis calls it that too.
Might be a German thing though, because the English word 'stick' sticks out, pun not intended.
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>>56228254
>>mfw Americans
Whoa, had to check and make sure we weren't in /pol/
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>>56230199
I'm going to start. Truly patrician
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botnet
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>>56228078
Stuff Stick
Hoard Board
Archival Memory Unit
USB Storage Device
Thingie
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I usually say flash drive, and sometimes USB drive/stick.

Fuck anyone that says thumb drive or jump drive. Hell, I'd rather hear pen drive than that shit.
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>>56228078
USB, or "stick"
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Dongle.
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>>56228078

Memory stick.


Also, fuck you.
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>>56228078

Sticky in the Netherlands (and all other variants).
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penis
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>Clé USB
USB Key in French
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>>56228078
It's called a Jump thumb you fucking tard.
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>>56228078
Where would USB Key land on your chart?

[spoiler]Not relevant to me because I say thumb drive, just curious[/spoiler]
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>>56228112
this
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universal serial bus-compliant solid state drive electronic media storage device
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Pluggley wuggleys, knew a chick who called them this, her reasoning was she thought it was cute. I really hope she's killed herself by now.
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"Memoria USB"
USB memory

fuck Mexican Spanish
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>>56230840
newfag
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>>56231854

Same in Italy, more or less.

>Chiavetta (small key) USB
> Just Chiavetta in informal conversation
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>>56228078
stick
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Flash drive since 2003.
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>>56230602
Here in Brazil we call it pen drive. I just follow along because using other terms mean people won't understand what i'm talking about.
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>>56232460
Its like how brits named a boat 'boaty mcboatface'
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Jump drive sounds like some shit outta star trek
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When I try to talk in English I said flash drive.

When I speak in Spanish, pen or pendrive is enough.
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Memory Stick
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>>56234375
Everyone calls them pendrive in Spanish, at least in my country. Which is a good thing, since people used to call them "mp3s"
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>>56234463
pen drive in portuguese too
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I usually call it a flash drive.
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Flash drive
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>>56233630
>>56234375
>>56234463
>>56234546
Why is it called pen drive in third world
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>>56235705
>shit tier
>pen drive
self explanatory
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>>56236820
Why isnt it puta drive or some nonsense then
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Clé usb
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>>56230412
"Jump Drive" is the brand name that Lexar uses for their drives.
http://www.lexar.com/products/usb-flash-drives
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>>56228078
USB magical storage wand
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>>56228078
флeшкa

fleshka or flæshka depending on the accent
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>>56236860
>puta drive
topkek
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discstick
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>>56237663
*clef
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>>56228078
Thumb drive. My IT boss kept calling it that, so the name stuck.
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>>56228078
Holy kek I had a teacher who always referred to these at jump drives, no one ever knew what the fuck he was taking about kek
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Zip Disquettes
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>>56228078
chiavetta usb
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>>56228078
Portable Universal Serial Bus compliant Solid State Zip Disquette Storage Device.

>not even joking this time
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its a memory stick dickhead
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USB penis
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>>56240525
I don't think so, captain.
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>>56228078
>Calling it anything other than a Universal Serial Benis
wew lad
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i simply refer to it as "whore"
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Jump drive lol
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>>56228254
If I hear someone say flash stick, they're getting getting punched in the face.
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>>56234330
They don't.
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>>56228093
USB is a port
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I call it a memory stick
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I call it m(ass)usb. I usually omit the ass so it becomes musb.
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I generally call it a USB thumb zip or pocket ssd
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>>56235705
Probably because the first widely commercially available flash drives were elongated, and stores called them that, and it just stuck.
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>>56228078
>zip disquette
EVERY TIME
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>>56242664
I don't get it. Does no one remember what actual zip disks were?
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>>56237916
Clé
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>>56228078
A duck's mouth.
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>>56228134
Uwe Boll's Dick
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>>56228078
Pooter pickler.
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>>56228078
Either flash drive or usb drive.
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>>56228134

Why is this so funny?
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>>56243274
Dick jokes
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>arguing about this shit
holy fuck this board is seriously autistic
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Zip disquette
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Everyone calls them "USB stick" in Germany.
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>>56243333

There's no dick joke in there. It's more like a German pronunciation joke.
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>>56243376

Who is Uwe and why does he own so many B sticks?
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My fiancée calls it a jump drive and it makes me want to backhand her. I call it a USB stick.
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>>56228078
South African's call them stiffies.
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