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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Yes! That’s probably like ~70 years?https://twitter.com/staticsan/status/1079609266430894082?s=21 …
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But… we’re still IN the days of vinyl recording when you buy an album of multiple discs. This David Bowie album comes out on Friday, for instance: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JVF8JRR/ That said, the term actually predates both records and photo albums: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_for_the_Young …
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Yeah, but there will always be tiny exceptions to every word on whatever list we come up with.
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…What are you saying is a “tiny exception” here? There were $416 million in vinyl sales in the US in 2015: http://fortune.com/2016/04/16/vinyl-sales-record-store-day/ … There are big-name, multiple-disc releases every week: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=mh_s9_acss_cg_vnyl24a_3b1_w?rh=i%3Apopular%2Cn%3A5174%2Cp_n_binding_browse-bin%3A387647011%2Cp_n_date%3A1249114011&bbn=5174&sort=salesrank … Still, though: The word doesn’t even come from records or photos.
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But people don’t call multiple-disc album releases “albums,” and single-disc releases “not albums.”
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I do agree it’s kind of an interesting inversion/case, though.
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