It makes no sense, either way you subract words from which you orriginally had.
2007-01-24 08:42:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Why do you TYPE on a computer but WRITE on a paper? Two different things, two different words.
2007-01-24 08:49:11 · answer #1 · answered by blue.dragon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's a minor difference. Even on a computer, deleting a file is not the same as erasing a file (technically).
Delete just means to remove, erase means to actually destroy it beyond recognition. For example, you can delete a word from a sentence on a piece of paper by drawing a line through it.
When you delete a file, it is actually still there, but has been taken out of the file list. You could conceivably put it back in the file list, and this is what the old UNDELETE.EXE command in Windows used to do and what a lot of data recovery tools still do.
Erasing a file would mean actually wiping every bit of the file on the hard disk. This is not what happens when you delete a file normally; eventually the bits just get reused later by new files.
There is a program called Eraser that will actually do that (wipe the bits of the file on the disk beyond recognition) in various secure fashions.
2007-01-24 16:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by romulusnr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well let's see.
On a computer you're not actually "writing" anything. You are ENTERING things. To delete means to eliminate, get rid of. That's what you do to material you've entered on your keyboard. Pencils. You really write with them. It's on paper... in front of you. You don't like it anymore, you use the eraser provided. I'm not sure that makes any sense, but darn it it sounds good to me.
2007-01-24 17:34:41 · answer #3 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Erase is beacuse you do it manually but deleting is done by computer u just give in the command
2007-01-24 16:51:51 · answer #4 · answered by Ganesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There *is* an erase command on the computer, if you happen upon the cmd.exe interface once in awhile!
2007-01-24 16:47:55 · answer #5 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cos the delete button says delete, and the eraser usually says eraser on it, makes perfect sence to me. does exactly wot they say on the tin
2007-01-24 16:51:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
b/c words on the comp never really were there
2007-01-24 16:52:28 · answer #7 · answered by neongreensugar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is wierd
2007-01-24 16:45:59 · answer #8 · answered by ZAK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋