Is “plugging out” electronic devices an American expression?
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Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".
Plug out the charger from the wall.
I plugged out my TV.
I found my radio plugged out.
I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.
Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?
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Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".
Plug out the charger from the wall.
I plugged out my TV.
I found my radio plugged out.
I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.
Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?
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FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".
– Mixolydian
2 days ago
22
Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".
– Kalmino
2 days ago
12
As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.
– Michael Hampton
2 days ago
18
"Plug in" is extremely common; but I've never heard "plug out" used until right now.
– JMac
yesterday
9
Although I have heard the term 'pull the plug out' to remove the plug from a socket and hence 'pull the plug' to stop something electronic, I've never heard of 'plugging out'
– Smock
yesterday
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Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".
Plug out the charger from the wall.
I plugged out my TV.
I found my radio plugged out.
I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.
Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?
american-english
asked 2 days ago
KaiqueKaique
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Are these valid in American English as opposed to "unplug".
Plug out the charger from the wall.
I plugged out my TV.
I found my radio plugged out.
I started hanging out with some guys of Jamaican descent who were born in Canada and I noticed that they talked about "plugging out" their electronic devices rather than "unplugging" them. Recently I've begun to hear the same expression from non-Jamaicans.
Anyone have any idea how widespread this is?
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FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".
– Mixolydian
2 days ago
22
Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".
– Kalmino
2 days ago
12
As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.
– Michael Hampton
2 days ago
18
"Plug in" is extremely common; but I've never heard "plug out" used until right now.
– JMac
yesterday
9
Although I have heard the term 'pull the plug out' to remove the plug from a socket and hence 'pull the plug' to stop something electronic, I've never heard of 'plugging out'
– Smock
yesterday
|
show 2 more comments
79
FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".
– Mixolydian
2 days ago
22
Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".
– Kalmino
2 days ago
12
As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.
– Michael Hampton
2 days ago
18
"Plug in" is extremely common; but I've never heard "plug out" used until right now.
– JMac
yesterday
9
Although I have heard the term 'pull the plug out' to remove the plug from a socket and hence 'pull the plug' to stop something electronic, I've never heard of 'plugging out'
– Smock
yesterday
79
79
FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".
– Mixolydian
2 days ago
FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".
– Mixolydian
2 days ago
22
22
Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".
– Kalmino
2 days ago
Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".
– Kalmino
2 days ago
12
12
As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.
– Michael Hampton
2 days ago
As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.
– Michael Hampton
2 days ago
18
18
"Plug in" is extremely common; but I've never heard "plug out" used until right now.
– JMac
yesterday
"Plug in" is extremely common; but I've never heard "plug out" used until right now.
– JMac
yesterday
9
9
Although I have heard the term 'pull the plug out' to remove the plug from a socket and hence 'pull the plug' to stop something electronic, I've never heard of 'plugging out'
– Smock
yesterday
Although I have heard the term 'pull the plug out' to remove the plug from a socket and hence 'pull the plug' to stop something electronic, I've never heard of 'plugging out'
– Smock
yesterday
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Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:
(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.
From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...
Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.
answered 2 days ago
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The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
8
@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.
– SamBC
2 days ago
2
(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)
– SamBC
2 days ago
4
@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
1
I have very rarely heard it in Britain, but have always known Irish people so it could have been from them (dircetly or indirectly)
– Chris H
yesterday
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In America, we use the term "unplug", not "plug out"
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Here in South Africa, we say "plug out" too. I am not sure if this is based on the historical European influence, or that in Afrikaans "uit prop" translates to "plug out" really... In Afrikaans, the words make sense - but I can see how it gets a little non-descriptive in English. It sounds like "rock out" (even though not really great form in my opinion either), so "plug out" tends to convey a slangy feel to me. Nevertheless, we do use it commonly here.
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I work in north eastern Ohio, in a community of Amish people, where the first language is Dutch (not European Dutch - this would be Pennsylvania Dutch, or a regional dialect thereof).
Here, I never hear native dutch speakers say "unplug." It's always "plug out."
There are relatively few idioms that are unique to this area, but this is one of those that stood out starkly to me, as I'd never heard this term prior to working in this area.
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Pennsylvania Dutch is not Dutch at all: it's a dialect of German. "Dutch" in this case arose as a corruption of "Deutsch".
– Martha
yesterday
16
@Martha -- European Dutch is also a (different) dialect of German, but with an army and a navy.
– Jasper
yesterday
@Jasper: chortle. :)
– Martha
yesterday
2
Just out of curiosity: how often do Amish need to "unplug" stuff? To me it feels like this wouldn't be used much anyway, no?
– Patrice
13 hours ago
1
@Patrice - drain pipes, maybe?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
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I am from a community in New York speaking English and Yiddish and I can definitely hear myself say "plug out".
I believe this happens because we tend to express things in English the same way we would in express it in Yiddish. There are many more examples where we do it.
Yiddish is also somewhat derived from German.
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I came across this phrasing in a Supermicro server's IPMI Virtual Media interface. It looks like this:
The plug in/out buttons could easily say "connect/disconnect" and have exactly the same meaning. Company is based in California, USA, but I do not know where their IPMI interface coders are located.
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Nice! My next question is: what is supposed to be conveyed by the second line in the history that says "Stop!!"?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
@davidbak its a status output area - I connected an ISO fie to a virtual CD drive, disconnected it, read "plug out" and remembered this question, then reconnected the file so the button was not greyed-out before taking screenshot. Is!! very!! enthusiastic!! OK!!
– Criggie
7 hours ago
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Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:
(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.
From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...
Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.
answered 2 days ago
user070221user070221
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The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
8
@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.
– SamBC
2 days ago
2
(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)
– SamBC
2 days ago
4
@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
1
I have very rarely heard it in Britain, but have always known Irish people so it could have been from them (dircetly or indirectly)
– Chris H
yesterday
add a comment |
Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:
(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.
From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...
Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.
answered 2 days ago
user070221user070221
5,51111135
13
The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
8
@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.
– SamBC
2 days ago
2
(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)
– SamBC
2 days ago
4
@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
1
I have very rarely heard it in Britain, but have always known Irish people so it could have been from them (dircetly or indirectly)
– Chris H
yesterday
add a comment |
Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:
(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.
From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...
Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.
answered 2 days ago
user070221user070221
5,51111135
Wiktionary defines the expression plug out as Irish:
(Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.
From The Daily Edge : 13 words you'll never hear outside of Ireland...
Another uniquely Irish phrase is 'to plug out' as in ' plug out the telly'.
answered 2 days ago
user070221user070221
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answered 2 days ago
user070221user070221
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answered 2 days ago
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user070221user070221
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The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
8
@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.
– SamBC
2 days ago
2
(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)
– SamBC
2 days ago
4
@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
1
I have very rarely heard it in Britain, but have always known Irish people so it could have been from them (dircetly or indirectly)
– Chris H
yesterday
add a comment |
13
The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
8
@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.
– SamBC
2 days ago
2
(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)
– SamBC
2 days ago
4
@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
1
I have very rarely heard it in Britain, but have always known Irish people so it could have been from them (dircetly or indirectly)
– Chris H
yesterday
13
13
The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
The GloWbE corpus seems to confirm this, but also some other Englishes. 1 relevant example from US, 5 from UK, 10 from Ireland, 4 from India, 2 Bangla Desh, 3 singapore, 3 Jamaica, 1 each from Hong Kong and kenya. None from anywhere else. I have learnt something: I would have said that no native English speaker used this expression.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
8
8
@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.
– SamBC
2 days ago
@ColinFine Does your corpus search make sure it's looking at that as a verb? After all, you may get "take the plug out of the bath", which is something else entirely.
– SamBC
2 days ago
2
2
(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)
– SamBC
2 days ago
(I never heard it in Britain, but the UK does include a chunk of Ireland, which may affect the results)
– SamBC
2 days ago
4
4
@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
@SamBC: I told it to restrict it to a verb, but quite a few entries were mis-tagged. There were few enough that I could inspect them individually and exclude the ones with a different structure.
– Colin Fine
2 days ago
1
1
I have very rarely heard it in Britain, but have always known Irish people so it could have been from them (dircetly or indirectly)
– Chris H
yesterday
I have very rarely heard it in Britain, but have always known Irish people so it could have been from them (dircetly or indirectly)
– Chris H
yesterday
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In America, we use the term "unplug", not "plug out"
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In America, we use the term "unplug", not "plug out"
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Here in South Africa, we say "plug out" too. I am not sure if this is based on the historical European influence, or that in Afrikaans "uit prop" translates to "plug out" really... In Afrikaans, the words make sense - but I can see how it gets a little non-descriptive in English. It sounds like "rock out" (even though not really great form in my opinion either), so "plug out" tends to convey a slangy feel to me. Nevertheless, we do use it commonly here.
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Here in South Africa, we say "plug out" too. I am not sure if this is based on the historical European influence, or that in Afrikaans "uit prop" translates to "plug out" really... In Afrikaans, the words make sense - but I can see how it gets a little non-descriptive in English. It sounds like "rock out" (even though not really great form in my opinion either), so "plug out" tends to convey a slangy feel to me. Nevertheless, we do use it commonly here.
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Here in South Africa, we say "plug out" too. I am not sure if this is based on the historical European influence, or that in Afrikaans "uit prop" translates to "plug out" really... In Afrikaans, the words make sense - but I can see how it gets a little non-descriptive in English. It sounds like "rock out" (even though not really great form in my opinion either), so "plug out" tends to convey a slangy feel to me. Nevertheless, we do use it commonly here.
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Here in South Africa, we say "plug out" too. I am not sure if this is based on the historical European influence, or that in Afrikaans "uit prop" translates to "plug out" really... In Afrikaans, the words make sense - but I can see how it gets a little non-descriptive in English. It sounds like "rock out" (even though not really great form in my opinion either), so "plug out" tends to convey a slangy feel to me. Nevertheless, we do use it commonly here.
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I work in north eastern Ohio, in a community of Amish people, where the first language is Dutch (not European Dutch - this would be Pennsylvania Dutch, or a regional dialect thereof).
Here, I never hear native dutch speakers say "unplug." It's always "plug out."
There are relatively few idioms that are unique to this area, but this is one of those that stood out starkly to me, as I'd never heard this term prior to working in this area.
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Pennsylvania Dutch is not Dutch at all: it's a dialect of German. "Dutch" in this case arose as a corruption of "Deutsch".
– Martha
yesterday
16
@Martha -- European Dutch is also a (different) dialect of German, but with an army and a navy.
– Jasper
yesterday
@Jasper: chortle. :)
– Martha
yesterday
2
Just out of curiosity: how often do Amish need to "unplug" stuff? To me it feels like this wouldn't be used much anyway, no?
– Patrice
13 hours ago
1
@Patrice - drain pipes, maybe?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
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I work in north eastern Ohio, in a community of Amish people, where the first language is Dutch (not European Dutch - this would be Pennsylvania Dutch, or a regional dialect thereof).
Here, I never hear native dutch speakers say "unplug." It's always "plug out."
There are relatively few idioms that are unique to this area, but this is one of those that stood out starkly to me, as I'd never heard this term prior to working in this area.
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Pennsylvania Dutch is not Dutch at all: it's a dialect of German. "Dutch" in this case arose as a corruption of "Deutsch".
– Martha
yesterday
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@Martha -- European Dutch is also a (different) dialect of German, but with an army and a navy.
– Jasper
yesterday
@Jasper: chortle. :)
– Martha
yesterday
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Just out of curiosity: how often do Amish need to "unplug" stuff? To me it feels like this wouldn't be used much anyway, no?
– Patrice
13 hours ago
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@Patrice - drain pipes, maybe?
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I work in north eastern Ohio, in a community of Amish people, where the first language is Dutch (not European Dutch - this would be Pennsylvania Dutch, or a regional dialect thereof).
Here, I never hear native dutch speakers say "unplug." It's always "plug out."
There are relatively few idioms that are unique to this area, but this is one of those that stood out starkly to me, as I'd never heard this term prior to working in this area.
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I work in north eastern Ohio, in a community of Amish people, where the first language is Dutch (not European Dutch - this would be Pennsylvania Dutch, or a regional dialect thereof).
Here, I never hear native dutch speakers say "unplug." It's always "plug out."
There are relatively few idioms that are unique to this area, but this is one of those that stood out starkly to me, as I'd never heard this term prior to working in this area.
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Pennsylvania Dutch is not Dutch at all: it's a dialect of German. "Dutch" in this case arose as a corruption of "Deutsch".
– Martha
yesterday
16
@Martha -- European Dutch is also a (different) dialect of German, but with an army and a navy.
– Jasper
yesterday
@Jasper: chortle. :)
– Martha
yesterday
2
Just out of curiosity: how often do Amish need to "unplug" stuff? To me it feels like this wouldn't be used much anyway, no?
– Patrice
13 hours ago
1
@Patrice - drain pipes, maybe?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
|
show 2 more comments
11
Pennsylvania Dutch is not Dutch at all: it's a dialect of German. "Dutch" in this case arose as a corruption of "Deutsch".
– Martha
yesterday
16
@Martha -- European Dutch is also a (different) dialect of German, but with an army and a navy.
– Jasper
yesterday
@Jasper: chortle. :)
– Martha
yesterday
2
Just out of curiosity: how often do Amish need to "unplug" stuff? To me it feels like this wouldn't be used much anyway, no?
– Patrice
13 hours ago
1
@Patrice - drain pipes, maybe?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
11
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Pennsylvania Dutch is not Dutch at all: it's a dialect of German. "Dutch" in this case arose as a corruption of "Deutsch".
– Martha
yesterday
Pennsylvania Dutch is not Dutch at all: it's a dialect of German. "Dutch" in this case arose as a corruption of "Deutsch".
– Martha
yesterday
16
16
@Martha -- European Dutch is also a (different) dialect of German, but with an army and a navy.
– Jasper
yesterday
@Martha -- European Dutch is also a (different) dialect of German, but with an army and a navy.
– Jasper
yesterday
@Jasper: chortle. :)
– Martha
yesterday
@Jasper: chortle. :)
– Martha
yesterday
2
2
Just out of curiosity: how often do Amish need to "unplug" stuff? To me it feels like this wouldn't be used much anyway, no?
– Patrice
13 hours ago
Just out of curiosity: how often do Amish need to "unplug" stuff? To me it feels like this wouldn't be used much anyway, no?
– Patrice
13 hours ago
1
1
@Patrice - drain pipes, maybe?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
@Patrice - drain pipes, maybe?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
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I am from a community in New York speaking English and Yiddish and I can definitely hear myself say "plug out".
I believe this happens because we tend to express things in English the same way we would in express it in Yiddish. There are many more examples where we do it.
Yiddish is also somewhat derived from German.
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I am from a community in New York speaking English and Yiddish and I can definitely hear myself say "plug out".
I believe this happens because we tend to express things in English the same way we would in express it in Yiddish. There are many more examples where we do it.
Yiddish is also somewhat derived from German.
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I am from a community in New York speaking English and Yiddish and I can definitely hear myself say "plug out".
I believe this happens because we tend to express things in English the same way we would in express it in Yiddish. There are many more examples where we do it.
Yiddish is also somewhat derived from German.
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I am from a community in New York speaking English and Yiddish and I can definitely hear myself say "plug out".
I believe this happens because we tend to express things in English the same way we would in express it in Yiddish. There are many more examples where we do it.
Yiddish is also somewhat derived from German.
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I came across this phrasing in a Supermicro server's IPMI Virtual Media interface. It looks like this:
The plug in/out buttons could easily say "connect/disconnect" and have exactly the same meaning. Company is based in California, USA, but I do not know where their IPMI interface coders are located.
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CriggieCriggie
2005
Nice! My next question is: what is supposed to be conveyed by the second line in the history that says "Stop!!"?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
@davidbak its a status output area - I connected an ISO fie to a virtual CD drive, disconnected it, read "plug out" and remembered this question, then reconnected the file so the button was not greyed-out before taking screenshot. Is!! very!! enthusiastic!! OK!!
– Criggie
7 hours ago
add a comment |
I came across this phrasing in a Supermicro server's IPMI Virtual Media interface. It looks like this:
The plug in/out buttons could easily say "connect/disconnect" and have exactly the same meaning. Company is based in California, USA, but I do not know where their IPMI interface coders are located.
answered yesterday
CriggieCriggie
2005
Nice! My next question is: what is supposed to be conveyed by the second line in the history that says "Stop!!"?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
@davidbak its a status output area - I connected an ISO fie to a virtual CD drive, disconnected it, read "plug out" and remembered this question, then reconnected the file so the button was not greyed-out before taking screenshot. Is!! very!! enthusiastic!! OK!!
– Criggie
7 hours ago
add a comment |
I came across this phrasing in a Supermicro server's IPMI Virtual Media interface. It looks like this:
The plug in/out buttons could easily say "connect/disconnect" and have exactly the same meaning. Company is based in California, USA, but I do not know where their IPMI interface coders are located.
answered yesterday
CriggieCriggie
2005
I came across this phrasing in a Supermicro server's IPMI Virtual Media interface. It looks like this:
The plug in/out buttons could easily say "connect/disconnect" and have exactly the same meaning. Company is based in California, USA, but I do not know where their IPMI interface coders are located.
answered yesterday
CriggieCriggie
2005
answered yesterday
CriggieCriggie
2005
answered yesterday
CriggieCriggie
2005
answered yesterday
CriggieCriggie
2005
2005
Nice! My next question is: what is supposed to be conveyed by the second line in the history that says "Stop!!"?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
@davidbak its a status output area - I connected an ISO fie to a virtual CD drive, disconnected it, read "plug out" and remembered this question, then reconnected the file so the button was not greyed-out before taking screenshot. Is!! very!! enthusiastic!! OK!!
– Criggie
7 hours ago
add a comment |
Nice! My next question is: what is supposed to be conveyed by the second line in the history that says "Stop!!"?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
@davidbak its a status output area - I connected an ISO fie to a virtual CD drive, disconnected it, read "plug out" and remembered this question, then reconnected the file so the button was not greyed-out before taking screenshot. Is!! very!! enthusiastic!! OK!!
– Criggie
7 hours ago
Nice! My next question is: what is supposed to be conveyed by the second line in the history that says "Stop!!"?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
Nice! My next question is: what is supposed to be conveyed by the second line in the history that says "Stop!!"?
– davidbak
10 hours ago
@davidbak its a status output area - I connected an ISO fie to a virtual CD drive, disconnected it, read "plug out" and remembered this question, then reconnected the file so the button was not greyed-out before taking screenshot. Is!! very!! enthusiastic!! OK!!
– Criggie
7 hours ago
@davidbak its a status output area - I connected an ISO fie to a virtual CD drive, disconnected it, read "plug out" and remembered this question, then reconnected the file so the button was not greyed-out before taking screenshot. Is!! very!! enthusiastic!! OK!!
– Criggie
7 hours ago
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FWIW, I'm an American and I have never heard anyone use this expression. I say "unplug".
– Mixolydian
2 days ago
22
Canadian here; I've never heard anyone use the phrase "plugging out" before. It's always "unplug".
– Kalmino
2 days ago
12
As an American I have only ever seen it in a UI translated from Chinese by people who learned English outside the US.
– Michael Hampton
2 days ago
18
"Plug in" is extremely common; but I've never heard "plug out" used until right now.
– JMac
yesterday
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Although I have heard the term 'pull the plug out' to remove the plug from a socket and hence 'pull the plug' to stop something electronic, I've never heard of 'plugging out'
– Smock
yesterday