Avatars

[Andreas Moran]

I looked up the word 'avatar' in my dictionary (which is, admittedly, thirty years old), and it says it is 'the descent of a Hindu deity in a visible form'. Hmmm!!

[Demetrios Galanidis]

I looked up the word 'avatar' in my dictionary (which is, admittedly, thirty years old), and it says it is 'the descent of a Hindu deity in a visible form'. Hmmm!!

True, but then it also probably does not define an 'icon' as a funny little image on your computer desktop :)

[Andreas Moran]

True, but then it also probably does not define an 'icon' as a funny little image on your computer desktop

It certainly does not! It does define 'computer' as 'a calculator'! :D

[M.C. Steenberg]

I looked up the word 'avatar' in my dictionary (which is, admittedly, thirty years old), and it says it is 'the descent of a Hindu deity in a visible form'. Hmmm!!

Yes, that's quite right, Andreas. In Hindu expression, an avatar is the visible face or form of a deity, which may remain constant or change (i.e. a deity is not conceived always to have to appear in the same form).

The term also means an image that represents something or someone else. In computing terms, it is a self-selected image chosen to represent a person on-line.

INXC, Dcn Matthew

[Gerard]

I looked up the word 'avatar' in my dictionary (which is, admittedly, thirty years old), and it says it is 'the descent of a Hindu deity in a visible form'. Hmmm!!

That`s just the reason why I cannot understand and still protesting, because in Holland a lot of dutch websites are a mixture with such kind of words! And till now I didn`t really know what this word meant, so why should I use it on a dutch website like Hyves? Sorry, for that`s my problem here in Holland.....