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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Clay pot (óstrakon) shards used to vote on banishment from ancient Athens.
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And I warn you, if you won’t allow that one, I’m going to go even weirder: the letter A. Oxen, as such, are widely but not universally obsolete, like many of the other technologies in this thread.
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Language can’t all be conceptual metaphors derived from embodied experience… can it?
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oh shit my couch is a thousand miles across, to an ant
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it’s skeu all the way deun
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