[Vocabulary] Could you ____ it for me?

[Glizdka]

What word do I use to ask somebody to upload a file to my pendrive?

Suppose you've got an awesome song and I want it on my pendrive. I take it out of my pocket, and ask you "Could you ____ it for me?" I'm looking for the most casual word you'd use to a friend.

 

[Rover_KE]

Haven't you already used the best word – upload?

 

[tedmc]

I would say "save it for me (on the pendrive)", just as you would on any data storage medium.

 

[emsr2d2]

How casual do you want it to be? I might thrust the pen drive in my friend's direction and say "Stick it on there, would you?" or "Can you bung it on there for me? Ta."

 

[SoothingDave]

Copy

 

[Glizdka]

How casual do you want it to be?"

About as casual as you can get. Like, I've known the guy my whole life, and I can afford pretty much any level of casualty I want. You could even imagine me poking the person prior to asking them.

I'd also like to know what you use most, personally.

Haven't you already used the best word – upload?

Yeah, that sounds too technical. I'm not sure if that's appropriate.

 

[GoesStation]

About as casual as you can get. Like, I've known the guy my whole life, and I can afford pretty much any level of casualty I want. You could even imagine me poking the person prior to asking them.

I'd also like to know what you use most, personally.

Copy is suitably casual. Does this person react violently to being poked? If so, you risk becoming a casualty. You want a different word above.

 

[Glizdka]

Casualness?! That's not a word I've heard before.

The more you learn...

 

[Yankee]

How casual do you want it to be? I might thrust the pen drive in my friend's direction and say "Stick it on there, would you?" or "Can you bung it on there for me? Ta."

Well,as an AmE speaker my reaction/response would probably be, "Huh?" :shock:

 

[jutfrank]

Could you put it on this for me?
Could you copy it to this for me?

 

[emsr2d2]

About as casual as you can get. Like, I've known the guy my whole life, and I can afford pretty much any level of casualty I want. You could even imagine me poking the person prior to asking them.

"File. On there. Now." Say it with a big grin and with or without poking.

 

[SoothingDave]

Haven't you already used the best word – upload?

I would argue that you download to a device like a USB drive. The bigger computer/device/network is "up."

 

[Glizdka]

I would argue that you download to a device like a USB drive. The bigger computer/device/network is "up."

Isn't it upload to and download from?

Does download to even exist?

I always thought of download and upload like downstream and upstream, that it's the direction of flow, not the size od the item.

 

[GoesStation]

Isn't it upload to and download from?

Does download to even exist?

Yes, it does. You download something from one device to another.

 

[SoothingDave]

Isn't it upload to and download from?

Does download to even exist?

I always thought of download and upload like downstream and upstream, that it's the direction of flow, not the size od the item.

It's like I said. When you send your video to Youtube, you are uploading it. From your device up to the greater server/network.


When you find a movie you want to watch, you download it to your phone or tablet from itunes, or whatever larger service you are using.


If I use my PC to get music from itunes, I first go to the itunes website and download it from there to my PC. Then I connect my device to the PC and download it from the PC to the player.


In the first case, my PC was the lower device in relation to the itunes website. In the second, my PC was the upper device to the music player.

 

[jutfrank]

I always thought of download and upload like downstream and upstream, that it's the direction of flow, not the size od the item.

Yes, that's how I think too.

In this example, the idea is that the flow goes to the pen drive, so I'd use upload.

 

[emsr2d2]

From a laptop/PC to a pen drive, I'd just use "transfer".

 

[SoothingDave]

Yes, that's how I think too.

In this example, the idea is that the flow goes to the pen drive, so I'd use upload.

When is the flow ever down, then? If you watch Youtube videos on your phone, you are uploading them?

 

[emsr2d2]

If you watch YouTube videos on your phone, you're just streaming them.

 

[Glizdka]

From a laptop/PC to a pen drive, I'd just use "transfer".

I don't like transfer; it suggests relocation. The original data would have to be destroyed after being copied to be transfered, I think.

When is the flow ever down, then? If you watch Youtube videos on your phone, you are uploading them?

The data is flowing from the computer to the pendrive. I'm uploading it from the computer and downloading it to the pendrive.
The data is flowing from the pendrive to the computer. I'm uploading it from the pendrive and downloading it to the computer.