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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Replying to @mwichary
How about “thread” itself for what you’re doing now?
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In reference to physical fabric threads? Those still exist, though?
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Oh duh! Though that reminds me of how in Icelandic the word for telephone is simi, meaning “thread”
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Twitter threads *do* sometimes feel like a game of telephone.
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