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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Replying to @mwichary
I think a case could be made that “writing” with a keyboard is actually “composing,” but we still refer to it in pen-based terms.
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Replying to @JGPasterjak
Oh, interesting. I always thought of “writing” as more abstract, medium-independent (vs. “typing” ).
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Replying to @mwichary
Although, I still totally say “writing” when I’m at my keyboard. Because you don’t want to seem like the insufferable pedantic one. Not the *worst* one, anyway.
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Replying to @JGPasterjak
So you mean I shouldn’t differentiate between “typing” and “keyboarding”?
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Replying to @mwichary
Maybe you take one and I'll take the other and we'll see if we can get them to be an east-coast/west-coast thing. Like the way "the" goes in front of highway numbers out west.
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Replying to @mwichary
Nope. If it's an Interstate it'l be "I-95" or just "95." State roads and non-interstate federals and highly dependent on small groups like towns or even families or peer groups. cont'd...
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Replying to @JGPasterjak @mwichary
...I bet I could go to a diner on State Route 40 in Ormond Beach, FL and find people that said "SR40," "40," "Highway 40," "State 40." or even "Granada Blvd" which is what it's called when it hits the city Limits of Ormond Beach. /end
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(Particularly since my native language doesn’t have articles.)
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