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#1 2012-09-09 13:54:56
- mckennabrooks1
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Why is Scratch called Scratch?
I don't get it
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#2 2012-09-09 13:56:11
- RedRocker227
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Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
The mascot is a cat and cats scratch I think
(It feels writing "scratch" and not capitalising it)
Why
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#3 2012-09-09 13:56:44
- legobob23o
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Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
They took "Scratch" from how DJs "Scratch" they're music, put them together, and then it's just a really great piece of music. And that's the way it is with Scratch. You get to combine objects, color, etc., and then it's a really cool project. 
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#5 2012-09-09 17:52:11
Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
legobob23o wrote:
They took "Scratch" from how DJs "Scratch" they're music, put them together, and then it's just a really great piece of music. And that's the way it is with Scratch. You get to combine objects, color, etc., and then it's a really cool project.
This is correct, mostly. The Scratch name is taken from the practice of "scratching" by DJ's. The reason this was chosen is because "remixing" projects in a core part of Scratch and is similar to the practice of remixing songs.
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#6 2012-09-09 19:44:23
Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
Harakou wrote:
legobob23o wrote:
They took "Scratch" from how DJs "Scratch" they're music, put them together, and then it's just a really great piece of music. And that's the way it is with Scratch. You get to combine objects, color, etc., and then it's a really cool project.
This is correct, mostly. The Scratch name is taken from the practice of "scratching" by DJ's. The reason this was chosen is because "remixing" projects in a core part of Scratch and is similar to the practice of remixing songs.
oh.I always thought that it had to do with the mascot.
It's called 
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#7 2012-09-10 11:53:18
- scimonster
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Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
dvd4 wrote:
Harakou wrote:
legobob23o wrote:
They took "Scratch" from how DJs "Scratch" they're music, put them together, and then it's just a really great piece of music. And that's the way it is with Scratch. You get to combine objects, color, etc., and then it's a really cool project.
This is correct, mostly. The Scratch name is taken from the practice of "scratching" by DJ's. The reason this was chosen is because "remixing" projects in a core part of Scratch and is similar to the practice of remixing songs.
oh.I always thought that it had to do with the mascot.
Maybe it was the other way around.
Someone named Oren Zuckerman came up with the name for the reasons Harakou described.
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#8 2012-09-11 10:10:20
- mythbusteranimator
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Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
I never knew before reading this. 
clicky
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#9 2012-09-11 10:40:26
Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
mythbusteranimator wrote:
I never knew before reading this.
Time to bring out a Latin saying of mine.
Aestimans pariter, magnum adfert thesauris, sed seducens stultorum.
(Let's see if you can figure that one out. )
(PS, this is a +1 post)
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#10 2012-09-11 13:33:40
Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
BirdByte wrote:
mythbusteranimator wrote:
I never knew before reading this.
Time to bring out a Latin saying of mine.
Aestimans pariter, magnum adfert thesauris, sed seducens stultorum.
(Let's see if you can figure that one out.
(PS, this is a +1 post)
estimating equally offers big treasures but seduces the uneducated?
That's the most I can get out of it with my extremely poor Latin + deductive skills
And I must say it doesn't really make sense... care to enlighten?
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#11 2012-09-11 14:50:46
Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
BirdByte wrote:
mythbusteranimator wrote:
I never knew before reading this.
Time to bring out a Latin saying of mine.
Aestimans pariter, magnum adfert thesauris, sed seducens stultorum.
(Let's see if you can figure that one out.
(PS, this is a +1 post)
[offtopic]Everytime I see a post from BirdByte I want to go to The Misc Forums. [/offtopic]
Last edited by soniku3 (2012-09-11 14:52:21)
internet's all about cats today.
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#12 2012-09-11 18:13:38
Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
legobob23o wrote:
They took "Scratch" from how DJs "Scratch" they're music, put them together, and then it's just a really great piece of music. And that's the way it is with Scratch. You get to combine objects, color, etc., and then it's a really cool project.
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#13 2012-09-12 19:25:21
Re: Why is Scratch called Scratch?
dvd4 wrote:
Harakou wrote:
legobob23o wrote:
They took "Scratch" from how DJs "Scratch" they're music, put them together, and then it's just a really great piece of music. And that's the way it is with Scratch. You get to combine objects, color, etc., and then it's a really cool project.
This is correct, mostly. The Scratch name is taken from the practice of "scratching" by DJ's. The reason this was chosen is because "remixing" projects in a core part of Scratch and is similar to the practice of remixing songs.
oh.I always thought that it had to do with the mascot.
And I thought that the mascot was chosen because of squeak .... how wrong I was !
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