I don’t know why someone decided to say “correct” on my behalf, but no, it’s baser than that: “disks” is the ellipsis for “hard disks” and “floppy disks”. “Discs” is the correct terminology for an optical disc.
The author already acknowledges what you did re: digital games.
I mean that I know someone writing for PC Gamer (the outlet whose article this is) knows (or should know) the difference between those words.
Edit: In case you didn’t know, italicization is used to indicate (among other things) the name of an outlet. So for example, The New York Times, The Verge, and so on.
I don’t know why someone decided to say “correct” on my behalf, but no, it’s baser than that: “disks” is the ellipsis for “hard disks” and “floppy disks”. “Discs” is the correct terminology for an optical disc.
The author already acknowledges what you did re: digital games.
I still don’t understand what you mean by “PC Gamer, I know you know better.”.
I mean that I know someone writing for PC Gamer (the outlet whose article this is) knows (or should know) the difference between those words.
Edit: In case you didn’t know, italicization is used to indicate (among other things) the name of an outlet. So for example, The New York Times, The Verge, and so on.
omg apologies! I thought you were talking about the PC Gamer as in user of PCs. I didn’t pay attention to the name of the website. I was so confused.
Haha, it’s totally good. Maybe you got to learn a little grammatical tidbit from it, so net positive.