Ooh, you know that feeling, just as you’re about to do something critical on the internet, the connection goes down.
It’s been happening a lot to me recently. As I thumped the keyboard in frustration yet again, The Husband walked in.
“It’ll be your dongle,” he said.
Now, my dear hubby has a habit of saying things so confidently and authoritively that you believe he knows what he’s talking about, when actually the exact opposite is far more likely to be true!
In the early days of our relationship, I used to believe him all the time and he used to tell me some right old stories.
Back to the dongle. He had me going for a while and then I wondered if he was right this time.
There’s something about the world of computer technology which has given birth to a whole range of peculiar new vocabulary. I know language changes all the time – but is it because computer experts are often young, male and being so are, shall we say, slightly obsessed with … erm … masculine things?
Take dongle (if it indeed exists). Reminiscent of the male appendage or possibly Australian slang for something in the outback? I’d like to think if a woman had invented a word to describe the thingy which dictates broadband connection, she’d’ve termed it something more feminine: a tissell or a tossell maybe? Oh dear, think we’re back to male appendages.
Love,
Georgia x