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Snapperhead ,

Bird is the word

possiblylinux127 ,

What is the word movie?

jol ,

“movie”, the word.

possiblylinux127 ,

Maybe this one

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Movie

faintwhenfree ,

It’s a word movie, how do you not know this? /s

snausagesinablanket ,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

Everyone still “video tapes” everything on their phones.

Globulart ,

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

Pancito ,
@Pancito@lemmy.world avatar

They were joking…

Globulart ,

What makes you think that?

Pancito ,
@Pancito@lemmy.world avatar

Because no one ever said this.

Globulart ,

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.

ultratiem ,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

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.

entropicdrift ,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You’re thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha

Zahille7 ,

Oh God there’s a new one?

entropicdrift ,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Gen Alpha are everyone born 2010 and later, so yeah, they’re 13 at the oldest.

fritata_fritato ,

Lol that is the usual pattern right

Globulart ,

Ah, you must be from gen Z.

Yes new generations will continually be created and older generations will always sneer at them.

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

I don't know how to tell you this....

Flax_vert ,

Introducing Generation Alpha.

Zahille7 ,

That was awful

Pantherina ,

I know what it is but no idea how it works. I grew up with cassettes for music and CDs

Rhynoplaz ,

I’m just glad the term “talkies” didn’t catch on.

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".

Pietson ,

Idk that sounds kinda badass

Sigmatics ,

Why?

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

@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. :)

srecko ,

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”.”

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

@srecko "so strange, imagine if we didn't have Domitoriums!"

CorrodedCranium ,
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

Just wait for when “walkies” really take off with VR movies

Rhynoplaz ,

I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.

ChaoticEntropy ,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

You should take longer showers so that you can think a bit more.

scarabic ,

I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.

entropicdrift ,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

And a good chunk of our buildings, as well.

WhyAUsername_1 ,

So am I!

Aggravationstation ,

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.

JusticeForPorygon ,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix “ie” to anything when something new was invented

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

We're not much better, we've had tends for -r and -io.

Movr, movios.

Trainguyrom ,

Don’t forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on…

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

Saving them up for a later trend probably. Moviesie.

Trainguyrom ,

Moviiiiis?

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

Is it wrong that I kind of like that one?

Sigmatics ,

Other examples?

JusticeForPorygon ,
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/74ec25aa-85d2-4849-a1b1-cdfca343b26d.png

Squirrelsdrivemenuts ,

Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies… wait … oh no…

sonovebitch ,

Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.

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