“Press this button to do this”
Yes. The button symbol denotes the action/cause, not the reaction/effect.
Yes I understand that but in most software they don’t have seperate play and pause buttons but rather only one which swaps symbols when you click and so for me when I want to know whether it is currently playing I just look at the button.
I think this only applies if the two actions occupy the same space, and change when pressed? If I saw a separate play and pause button, I’d assume play means play and pause meant pause. If I saw only one button for play, I’d probably assume it was currently paused/stopped.
My bad, I should have been more specific in my post. I was talking in the context of software which in most music players has the pause and play buttons occupying the same space. On physical devices such as dvd player I obviously consider the pause button as “to pause” and the play button as “to play”
Tell me you’re Gen Z or Alpha without telling me you’re Gen Z or Alpha.
I don’t think we all do.
Someone here didn’t record their favourite songs onto a cassette when the radio played them
I hate to break it to you, but we’re too old. The kids don’t know what cassettes are.
proceeds to cry in a corner
They’ll start calling us cassettes as slang for old farts
Sup, Floppy drive.
Sup, turntable
Sup, Marconi radio
Sup, AWA
Okay, here’s where I lose you. What’s AWA?
Definitely not most people, perhaps most people in the youngest generations, but they still do not constitute a majority. In the future possibly, but there are still plenty of people who either still have sound playing equipment with buttons with those symbols on them or have recent memories of owning and operating such gadgets.
most software
It may astonish you to learn that many media devices in this wide, rich and varied world are not software applications.
What would be the reason? Most media players I use like vlc which is well known has the play as the triangle and pause as ||. Same with YouTube.
They’re not wrong
