[Ads-l] Physical Wallet & Hardware Wallet (absolutely sure it's plain ASCII this time)

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 13, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> There's billfold to reflect the money-holding role of a wallet.
> 
> If we need to reflect the prevalance of cards, how about 'cardfold'?
> 
> DanG
> 

If a billfold folds bills, a cardfold would fold cards.  I would hesitate to subject mine to to such a fate, however attractive the snakeskin pattern.

LH
 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at skechers.com>
> wrote:
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>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> Poster:       Brian Hitchcock <brianhi at SKECHERS.COM>
>> Subject:      Physical Wallet & Hardware Wallet  (absolutely sure it's
>> plain
>>              ASCII this time)
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>> Apologies for the gobbledygook earlier.  Michael Quinion got me
>> straightene=
>> d out on "encoding".
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>> There needs to be a retronym for a traditional (e.g. leather) wallet that
>> y=
>> ou can store actual credit cards in. This retronym is necessitated by the
>> e=
>> xistence of software-based digital wallets a.k.a. virtual wallets (Google
>> W=
>> allet, ApplePay, etc.).=20
>> 
>> There is a term, Hardware Wallet, (apparently not a retronym) which refers
>> =
>> not to a traditional wallet, but to a folder (sometimes made of paper)
>> that=
>> is intended to store thin payment-oriented hardware devices. For example,
>> =
>> in one place, Bitcoin describes their Hardware Wallet as:  "a Secure USB
>> sm=
>> art card based wallet for crypto-currencies (sic).  Apparently this means
>> a=
>> wallet to hold smart-card-based USB devices (hardware) which support
>> crypt=
>> ocurrencies (such as Bitcoin).   Elsewhere (on their own Wiki -
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__en.-3D&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=Gkh5B4pB67MRyUJjw7iE2GObkiTNgJA0JXionpm7ZLw&s=_YfV7YoEa1sfsn4VxYfL21Uv4wie2GVsGvhcQiUu4UE&e= 
>> bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardware_wallet  ), Bitcoin defines Hardware Wallet as "a
>> d=
>> evice that stores a part of a user's wallet securely in mostly-offline
>> hard=
>> ware." So the hardware wallet apparent refers either to the physical
>> folder=
>> or to the electronic device it holds! (note that Bitcoin uses 'Wallet' by
>> =
>> itself to refer their software/digital/virtual wallet -- bwh)=20
>> 
>> There is also now a variety of hardware wallet called HD Wallet (the HD
>> sta=
>> nds for Hierarchical Deterministic, which IIUC has to do with the
>> encryptio=
>> n method for credentials), but that sample of tech argot might be too
>> esote=
>> ric or ephemeral  to join the vernacular.
>> 
>> Wikipedia uses the term Physical Wallet in its article on BitCoin, to
>> refer=
>> to something (made of any material) that can 'store the credentials
>> necess=
>> ary to spend bitcoins offline' (This corresponds to one of Bitcoin's
>> defini=
>> tions for Hardware Wallet, above.) However, Wikipedia does not show
>> Physica=
>> l Wallet in their list of retronyms (
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__en.wikipedia.org_wiki_List-5Fof-5F-3D&d=AwIBaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=Gkh5B4pB67MRyUJjw7iE2GObkiTNgJA0JXionpm7ZLw&s=MA5VvSJA9yiQPyAixJ1_wkC8f0uW7yQoR8l3totBdc8&e= 
>> retronyms  ). They list no retronyms starting with "physical", nor do they
>> =
>> list Physical as a Retronymic Adjective.
>> 
>> It seems to me that Physical Wallet should be applied to any traditional
>> wa=
>> llet, but maybe we'll have to start calling them Traditional Wallets, or
>> so=
>> mething else. Anyway, I don't believe either Physical Wallet or Hardware
>> Wa=
>> llet are in dictionaries yet. I'm not sure whether they have cropped up
>> out=
>> side of computer-tech or banking circles.=20
>> 
>> -->   Is anybody interested in tracking down E.D.U. for physical wallet
>> and=
>> /or  hardware wallet, and possibly submitting them to the powers that be
>> (h=
>> owever that might be done) for consideration as new terms? =20
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