Germans say
aufnehmen for videos. Why would you
take up or
accept a video? At least English makes sense, see the answers below. (And of course the only honest answer, for any language, is: you have to use
some verb, so for all you care you can use any verb at all as long as enough people agree that that's the verb to use. If we collectively settle for "cat a photo" and "dog a video", then that's what you get. No word really
means anything in and of itself. It is but a collection of sounds, and has whatever meaning we assign to it.) —
RegDwigнt ♦ 8 mins ago