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Words Becoming Strange &/or Obsolete

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I noticed a Wikipedia entry that used the term, "film", eschewing the term "movie".
But "film" is or has become an obsolete technology.
"Movie" isn't rooted in anything so dated.
Also "film" sounds so pretentious.
It should die.

What have you found?
 

Quetzal

A little to the left and slightly out of focus.
Premium Member
I noticed a Wikipedia entry that used the term, "film", eschewing the term "movie".
But "film" is or has become an obsolete technology.
"Movie" isn't rooted in anything so dated.
Also "film" sounds so pretentious.
It should die.

What have you found?
"Picture" is similar, since it used to refer to movies I think?
 

Estro Felino

Believer in free will
Premium Member
Indeed...with digital technology...film sounds so anachronistic...
:p


Btw in Italian we still say film. We do not have a non-English term for that.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
"Picture" is similar, since it used to refer to movies I think?
The origins of "picture" are so ancient that it's not
tied to any modern day obsolete associations.
I'll keep it, but not "motion picture".
Or "talkie".
 

ADigitalArtist

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
In a funny microcosm, sci fi used to use 'jacked in' in books like William Gibson's writing (from which was drawn on for movies like The Matrix and games like Shadowrun) to represent connecting directly to the net or matrix (which also comes from Gibson) all the time. But in around 20 years we've realized that soon nobody is going to be using cable connections to the internet anymore and wireless systems have replaced 'jacked in' systems in fiction.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
I noticed a Wikipedia entry that used the term, "film", eschewing the term "movie".
But "film" is or has become an obsolete technology.
"Movie" isn't rooted in anything so dated.
Also "film" sounds so pretentious.
It should die.

What have you found?
I too don't like film. Film is a bunch of different things. Movie is a movie. An odd word, but I concluded as a kid that at least it has an odd conjuration for move, and movies are moving pictures, so it works.
I don't like the turning they into a singular pronoun.
I don't like "man crap" like "man sandals;" "man hug;" "man purse," "man bun" (I just hate the existence of those); "man thong;" or "manties."
I don't like how "hack" gets applied to basically everything that is not hacking or hacking related.
I don't like how the word "experience" is everywhere now.
I don't like advertising language, spelling, and grammar abuses. It is "drive through" not "drive thru."
I don't like that every so often we're not supposed to say certain things anymore and say other words instead. It really is the context and meaning that counts, because we are capable of turning anything into an insult and demeaning word. Even if it's made up on the spot. Even if it's normally a compliment. We're good at that.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
In a funny microcosm, sci fi used to use 'jacked in' in books like William Gibson's writing (from which was drawn on for movies like The Matrix and games like Shadowrun) to represent connecting directly to the net or matrix (which also comes from Gibson) all the time. But in around 20 years we've realized that soon nobody is going to be using cable connections to the internet anymore and wireless systems have replaced 'jacked in' systems in fiction.
I suspect we'll still be "jacked in" at the core of things because ultimately a wired connection is still better, so it may become a literary device to emphasis a certain motif.
 

MNoBody

Well-Known Member
one example I came across:
gibberish
which comes from the activities of the magi who would jibber their ingredients ....separate the coarse from the fine, and speak of it in their odd language......which eventually morphed into meaning something that is unintelligible and only referring to speech, and always in a denigrating sense with the implication of a put down comment......

strange that we all talk about the same things in so many different ways, but it all means just one thing in essence at the end of the day.
sky, or dirt, means the same thing no matter what it is called....to express it in just one way [any specific language] has no special significance that is more meaningful over any other way of naming it.
This all has only generated lots of confusion for people in disseminating meaning from words and languages.
The more specialized or obscure a language is, the more potential for being enigmatic and argued about regarding meaning.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
"Soft drink".
I stopped saying "pop" and started saying "soda" long before I moved out of Indiana. But it still felt weird when I did move here and other people were saying soda after so many years of hearing pop and coke (as in Southern "little c" coke that means all of them).
 
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