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Bird is the word

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What is the word movie?

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It’s a word movie, how do you not know this? /s

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“movie”, the word.

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Everyone still “video tapes” everything on their phones.

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Do they…?

I’ll be honest, I haven’t heard anyone say that ever when using a phone.

Maybe “videos” as a verb but generally “records” in my experience

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They were joking…

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What makes you think that?

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I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.

Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.

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I know what it is but no idea how it works. I grew up with cassettes for music and CDs

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Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You’re thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha

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Oh God there’s a new one?

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I don’t know how to tell you this…

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Ah, you must be from gen Z.

Yes new generations will continually be created and older generations will always sneer at them.

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Lol that is the usual pattern right

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Gen Alpha are everyone born 2010 and later, so yeah, they’re 13 at the oldest.

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I’m just glad the term “talkies” didn’t catch on.

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Just wait for when “walkies” really take off with VR movies

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I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.

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You think that’s bad, Lumiere’s father in law wanted him to call the new invention “Domitor” instead of “Cinema”.

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Or in alternate reallity: “You think that’s bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention “Cinema” before his father in law reasoned with him to call it “Domitor”.”

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@srecko “so strange, imagine if we didn’t have Domitoriums!”

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Why?

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@Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, “dominator”. He thought it would dominate.

They ended up going with the Greek word “kínēma” which means movement, hence movie cameras were “cinematographs” - movement writers.

But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :)

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Idk that sounds kinda badass

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