I wonder sometimes what would be the oldest extant word based on technology no longer in use. Taping an interview? Dialing someone? https://twitter.com/hels/status/679059633949011970 …
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This was such a fun thread and really appreciate everyone sending in suggestions, either within the (arbitrary) scope, or pushing at it. (All this inspired me to start making a little web app, but in the end none of the dictionary APIs had the data I wanted.)
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One meta observation: Languages are so varied and messy it was hard even for myself to understand what my question really meant! You can see I changed my mind back and forth as I was talking to different people.
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I want to write a short horror story based on a premise that using any such a phrase will instantly teleport you back to a time when it was still used literally. Two lovers on the phone. “No, *you* hang up.” *poof*
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I wrote many of the answers in a blog post – with images! Maybe this will be fun to someone. (Thank you so much again to everyone for participating.)https://medium.com/@mwichary/the-ghost-tech-in-todays-language-c3becc9ae30b …
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At a Dutch person I can tell you we have 100’s of words from our naval history still in use. Just like all the English examples.
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I just stumbled upon this now, co-incidentally enough! "When you are extremely successful financially, some may say you are 'making money hand over fist.' This stems back to fishermen drawing in a net full of fish." Source: http://rumkin.com/software/palm/
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