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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Well, we make the distinction between singles and albums or tracks and albums or EPs and albums. Shorter works and longer works made of shorter works. The Grammys are for Record of the Year and Album of the Year. And the word isn’t really about discs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album_for_the_Young …
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But that’s what I meant – the word transcended the physical medium to mean something more abstract, and even though there are again albums (new meaning) on albums (old meaning), the meaning is not reverting. :·)
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Although the fact that this is happening is indeed exciting and maybe unprecedented!
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