Have you ever heard of "soft copy" meaning digital copy?

@DDonde I am not from an english speaking area, but I work in an english speaking company doing transnational work

@Tracos It must be regional

@DDonde regional is relative :P

@deadgerbil Right? That was my reaction.

@DDonde nope. Always hard copy.😊

@GunFinger I mean for things that weren't a hard copy

@DDonde digital copy always.

@wackidywack Hard copy is very common here but I wonder why soft copy isn't common where I am

@DDonde I only started knowing of these terms when I started college. That would've been in 2016

@DDonde it's literally the opposite of a hardcopy. where a hardcopy is fixed a soft copy is malleable, like a word doc (with a pfd being an annoying exception but yet still a softcopy)

@Tracos I get that it makes sense. It's just not a term I ever hear or have ever heard until a few days ago.

@DDonde and I just noticed it is a single word for me: hardcopy / softcopy, no space

so not an adjective and a noun, just a noun.

@SW-User See, I've only ever heard of hard copy. I don't know why.

@V00doo Right, and I use hard copy like everybody else but I never use or really have heard the term 'soft copy'. I was in an English Language learning forum and a bunch of people agreed but also many people disagreed with me saying they'd heard the term frequently.

@DDonde What was their profession? A soft copy would be a pre edit draft, no?

@V00doo A few of them were foreign-language speakers but some of them were native speakers. At least one said they were an engineer. Some of them said that "soft copy" meant a digital copy.

@DDonde engage with each and every one