Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Maimas2 @lemmy.world 12 mo. ago

The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.

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I mean virtually all the hardware our culture runs on is less than 100 years old.
- 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?
- 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...
- 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...
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?
- 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
- "movie", the word.
  
  Maybe this one
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_Movie

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