# Porn or Porno?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-or-porno/572961>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 28, 2011, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-or-porno/572961 "2011-02-28T19:52:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-or-porno/572961/21 "2011-03-01T11:57:36Z")

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At work any vacant desk with a PC on it is referred to as “the porn server”.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-or-porno/572961/22 "2011-03-01T12:56:32Z")

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> [@The\_Why\_Bird](#):
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> ‘porno’ refers to a single movie; as in ‘she appeared in a porno in 2001’. Porn refers to a non-specific quantity of pornography as in ‘there is some porn on his computer’. You can have one porno, and some porn, but not one porn and some porno. I hope that makes sense.

I concur.

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