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04-06-2015, 02:38 PM | #1 (permalink) |
Born to be mild
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Words that will be obsolete before you die
Can't you just see it? "Record? What's a record? Do you mean a downloadbale music file? No? I don't get it."
"Payphone? Why would anyone pay to use their mobile phone? NOT mobile? Huh? Landline? Nah, ya lost me." "CRT television? NOT flatscreen? Huh?" And so on...
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04-06-2015, 02:47 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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- I frequently use the word record
- I am basically aware of what a payphone is, but would never use one - I had a CRT from 1994 until I bought my current tv. I think it's one that was **** even in '94, though. Anyway, words that will be obsolete when I die: CD DVD Probably Blu Ray Tower computers (and possibly laptops) Possibly physical books, although they'll probably end up like vinyl, with a small cult following Landline Maybe more. |
04-06-2015, 04:45 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Almost everyone has forgotten already. Not me. I'll never forget, not until she's buried in the ground.
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04-06-2015, 05:56 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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It's easy to use names of current/past technology in this thread. Sure, they're products, they'll reach the end of their cycle and be replaced. They may die from common language but the words will still be synonymous to the product for those who lived during their time. It's not as if nobody in 50 years will know what a DVD was.
Aside from that and slang which is obviously always changing with each generation of youngsters bringing their own words into popular use, I reckon you've got to look at words that disagree with the way society is progressing, terms like "manly" or "ladylike" imply characteristics of an assumed gender. That all men are physically strong with big beards and that all women swan around in lavish dresses and don't pass wind. There's two connotations of what those words mean. With our move away from assigned gendered roles, I reckon 50 years from now we could be looking at, at least in the developed world, the eradication of words that assume behavior because of one's gender. |
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