Is the front of a computer mouse the arse of it due to the cable "tail" coming out of it, or is the front of a computer mouse the head of the mouse, as it is more of a correct shape?
Is the front of a computer mouse the arse of it due to the cable "tail" coming out of it, or is the front of a computer mouse the head of the mouse, as it is more of a correct shape?
14 Comments
someguy3@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 3y
Simple the cable is not a tail.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Uh, I think you're kinda taking the name a bit too literally. Computer mice are just a tool used for controlling a computer.
Eavolution@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
I absolutely am, but they must have been named after regular mice, so idk what way it was originally envisaged.
freamon@endlesstalk.org · 14 pts · 3y
The first computer mouse was apparently more of a block.
I imagine it got its name from the 'tail' part, and the fact that it now looks mouse-like is mostly a co-incidence of it now being more ergonomically shaped.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
Could be both, to be honest. I've seen old mouses where the ears were on the buttons, and others where the tail is the cable
octoperson@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Mice.
But I know what you mean. Feels like computer mice should be its own word with its own plural form
floppy@rabbitea.rs · 4 pts · 3y
Apparently mouses is correct for computer mice but I don't subscribe to that train of thought at all.
Blaze@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y
Yeah, it's been a while since I last used mice
some_guy@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
Congrats you just discovered why restrictive, binary language isn’t a great way to describe real-world concepts.
Now do gender.
Bonehead@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Whichever way allows your fingers to rest on the buttons. Unless it's a weird buttonless Apple mouse, then you're just SOL.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 3y
Neither, and both.
Many objects just don't have a front and a back, other than front being the side closer to you.
Thavron@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3y
Just like you can sit behind and in front of the computer.
Deestan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
You put your palm on its face and finger its arse.
Like so https://s3.envato.com/files/105420941/Man%20Using%20A%20Computer%20Mouse%20(Image%20Preview).jpg
vladmech@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
That was my risky click of the day