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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Some great examples so far: · burning the midnight oil (from a lamp) · music album (records were literally packaged in albums, one/two songs per record) · crank up (the volume of an old gramophone) · dashboard (! from a horse carriage) · scroll (!!!)
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Oh, yeah! I forgot my own stuff. Shift and Backspace on the keyboard! Both from around 1880–1890, ceased to do what they literally meant ~1980 when computer took over from typewriters. ᴾˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᵇᵘʸ ᵐʸ ᵇᵒᵒᵏ
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Okay, I love this with all my heart:https://twitter.com/girlyratfish/status/1079620904080990208 …
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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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Sometimes the question turns out to have been the best answer all along. (Or something.)
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