Post #2334836

Ugh, I know for some, this is going to come off as petty and ranty, but it really is starting to irritate me when people use the term 'sound font' to refer to the set of instrument sounds that early video games use for their music. That is not what a sound font is. A sound font is a very specific file format, with its own history and usage, not a general-purpose term that applies to all music. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here's an analogy that might explain. Let's say I started referring to Wikipedia articles as Word documents, because I picked up the term Word document to mean a big block of text I can read. That's pretty much what I'm getting at. People have this tendency to use terms that sound fancy, that they have guessed the meaning of. The desire to be in the know takes over, so Googling that new term they just heard and are about to use, to make sure they're using it correctly... Who has time for that? Lol