Is there a difference between squished and squashed.
mm
connect my tv to a second output, and while the image on the tv was
correct, eventually the image on the monitor became compressed. The
top inch and bottom inch were black and the part in the middle was
squished. ATI help lists four possible problems prominently, one of
which is "If the image on your monitor changes or looks squashed".
Squished seems to me to be more precise than squashed, but I don't
know why.
What say you, English mavens?
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> I bought a new video card for the computer that would allow me to
> connect my tv to a second output, and while the image on the tv was
> correct, eventually the image on the monitor became compressed. The
> top inch and bottom inch were black and the part in the middle was
> squished. ATI help lists four possible problems prominently, one of
> which is "If the image on your monitor changes or looks squashed".
> Squished seems to me to be more precise than squashed, but I don't
> know why.
> What say you, English mavens?
In BrE, "squished" would, I think, be considered to be slang, and
probably not be used in a technical document.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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Peter Duncanson (BrE)
wrote:
>On 4 Feb 2010 mm <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
>> I bought a new video card for the computer that would allow me to
>> connect my tv to a second output, and while the image on the tv was
>> correct, eventually the image on the monitor became compressed. The
>> top inch and bottom inch were black and the part in the middle was
>> squished. ATI help lists four possible problems prominently, one of
>> which is "If the image on your monitor changes or looks squashed".
>
>> Squished seems to me to be more precise than squashed, but I don't
>> know why.
>
>> What say you, English mavens?
>
>In BrE, "squished" would, I think, be considered to be slang, and
>probably not be used in a technical document.
>
I agree.
I would have guessed that "squish" was a modern-ish invention, and I
would have been wrong.
OED:
squish, v.
[Imitative: cf. SQUISH-SQUASH. In sense 1 perh. a modified form of
SQUISS v. or SQUIZE v.]
1. trans. To squeeze, to squash. Now dial. and colloq.
1647 HEXHAM I, To Squise or squish, wrijven.
2. a. intr. Of water, soft mud, etc.: To give out a peculiar gushing
or splashing sound when walked in or on; to gush up, squirt
out, with such a sound.
a1825 FORBY Voc. E. Anglia s.v., The water squishes under our
feet in the grass, if it be walked on too soon after rain.
b. Of a person, etc.: to proceed or make one's way with a
squishing sound. colloq.
1952 Sun (Baltimore) 9 July 30/4 (caption) Soaked to the point
of not caring, this waterlogged pedestrian squishes his way
across a downtown street.
Hence squishing vbl. n.
1647 HEXHAM I, A squising or squishing together. Ibid., A
squising or squishing out.
squiss, v.
Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin: cf. SQUISH v. 1 and SQUIZE v.]
trans. To squeeze or crush. Hence squissed ppl. a.
1558...
squize, v.
Obs.
[Of obscure origin: cf. SQUEEZE v., SQUISS v.]
trans. To squeeze, in various senses.
Common from c 1560 to c 1620.
1548...
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Barb Knox
mm <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> I bought a new video card for the computer that would allow me to
> connect my tv to a second output, and while the image on the tv was
> correct, eventually the image on the monitor became compressed. The
> top inch and bottom inch were black and the part in the middle was
> squished. ATI help lists four possible problems prominently, one of
> which is "If the image on your monitor changes or looks squashed".
>
> Squished seems to me to be more precise than squashed, but I don't
> know why.
>
> What say you, English mavens?
While you're at it, my dialect has a similar word pronounced "squooshed"
with "oo" as in "book". Do others (AmE and/or BrE) have a word with
that pronunciation? And if so, how do you *spell* it. (FWIW, Google
has 60,300 hits for "squooshed", but suggests that I might have meant
"squashed".)
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mm
<ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:
>On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:22:54 GMT, Dr Peter Young <pny...@ormail.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>On 4 Feb 2010 mm <NOPSAM...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I bought a new video card for the computer that would allow me to
>>> connect my tv to a second output, and while the image on the tv was
>>> correct, eventually the image on the monitor became compressed. The
>>> top inch and bottom inch were black and the part in the middle was
>>> squished. ATI help lists four possible problems prominently, one of
>>> which is "If the image on your monitor changes or looks squashed".
>>
>>> Squished seems to me to be more precise than squashed, but I don't
>>> know why.
>>
>>> What say you, English mavens?
>>
>>In BrE, "squished" would, I think, be considered to be slang, and
>>probably not be used in a technical document.
Even squashed doesn't sound very technical. If they wanted to be
technical they'd say compressed.
>>
>I agree.
I agree too, except it's a computer help file and computer folk aren't
so insistent on standard English. For example, Eudora has a button
named Blah-Blah-Blah.
Now that I think some more, I see aquished as squeezed, made smaller,
but I see sqashed as squsiehd to death, like a beetle.
>
>I would have guessed that "squish" was a modern-ish invention, and I
I would have thought so too.
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>While you're at it, my dialect has a similar word pronounced "squooshed"
>with "oo" as in "book".
Here's how the words are shaded in my mind: Squashing compresses
something fairly uniformly, with a lot of force, usually in one direction
at a time, and usually not by very much. Papers are squashed into a
notebook, or clothes into a suitcase. Squishing squeezes something
irregularly so it flows out, or into a shape that's very thin in one or
two dimensions. Clay is squished between fingers, or squished into a
snakelike shape. Something soft is squished flat, though something
harder to flatten would have to be squashed flat. Squooshing envelops
something soft, like a pillow or a cat.
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<No...@bestweb.net> wrote:
> Here's how the words are shaded in my mind: Squashing compresses
> something fairly uniformly, with a lot of force, usually in one direction
> at a time, and usually not by very much. Papers are squashed into a
> notebook, or clothes into a suitcase. Squishing squeezes something
> irregularly so it flows out, or into a shape that's very thin in one or
> two dimensions. Clay is squished between fingers, or squished into a
> snakelike shape. Something soft is squished flat, though something
> harder to flatten would have to be squashed flat. Squooshing envelops
> something soft, like a pillow or a cat.
I agree with you about squish, noting that as a noun it's the sound
made by shoes tramping through soft mud. Squoosh is the sound made
when you stomp on a bug so, to me, squoosh is a total flattening.
Squash does not make a sound, so it's the nonspecific term.
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Cece
And then there's squushed. Short u (AmE terminology) as in bus.
Spelling? Who ever writes squooshed or squushed? They're fun to say,
in informal situations.
Odysseus
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> Squished seems to me to be more precise than squashed, but I don't
> know why.
I recently heard a CBC report from Haiti mentioning a "squished" car; I
thought they should have said "squashed". To me "squish" implies (or
presupposes) softness -- and perhaps wetness -- in the the object, and
has a slightly childish flavour. The latter may be because I perceive it
to be more obviously onomatop�ic than "squash", less readily applicable
to things that wouldn't make such a sound.
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