I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.
this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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And a good chunk of our buildings, as well.
Maybe in America. I live in the UK and my house is 150 years old. I grew up in one that's nearly 300 years old.
So am I!
Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.
I'm just glad the term "talkies" didn't catch on.
You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".
Or in alternate reallity: "You think that's bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention "Cinema" before his father in law reasoned with him to call it "Domitor"."
Idk that sounds kinda badass
Why?
@Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, "dominator". He thought it would dominate.
They ended up going with the Greek word "kínēma" which means movement, hence movie cameras were "cinematographs" - movement writers.
But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :)
Just wait for when "walkies" really take off with VR movies
I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.
It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix "ie" to anything when something new was invented
We're not much better, we've had tends for -r and -io.
Movr, movios.
Don't forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on...
Saving them up for a later trend probably. Moviesie.
Moviiiiis?
Is it wrong that I kind of like that one?
Other examples?
Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies... wait .. oh no..
Everyone still "video tapes" everything on their phones.
Do they....?
I'll be honest, I haven't heard anyone say that ever when using a phone.
Maybe "videos" as a verb but generally "records" in my experience
They were joking...
What makes you think that?
Because no one ever said this.
In a thread about a word being ingrained in our culture, where's the joke in claiming another word is also ingrained in our culture?
I may be wrong, but it seemed pretty sincere to me.
I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.
Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.
Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You're thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha
Oh God there's a new one?
Ah, you must be from gen Z.
Yes new generations will continually be created and older generations will always sneer at them.
Lol that is the usual pattern right
Gen Alpha are everyone born 2010 and later, so yeah, they're 13 at the oldest.
I don't know how to tell you this....
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That was awful
I know what it is but no idea how it works. I grew up with cassettes for music and CDs
You should take longer showers so that you can think a bit more.
Bird is the word
What is the word movie?
It's a word movie, how do you not know this? /s