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A timely thought
As the days of analog timepieces fade into history, will the directions "Turn clockwise to tighten" soon lose all meaning?
Will the expression persist, complete with scholarly footnotes and diagrams?
What could possibly replace it?
Any youngsters out there who can give a current status report?
And, just for fun, what other words or phrases can you think of that belong to the past but live on in the present? (It's late, and all I can think of right now is "Hold your horses!")
Will the expression persist, complete with scholarly footnotes and diagrams?
What could possibly replace it?
Any youngsters out there who can give a current status report?
And, just for fun, what other words or phrases can you think of that belong to the past but live on in the present? (It's late, and all I can think of right now is "Hold your horses!")
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(I remember watching my Mum make carbon copies when she was typing things up in the eighties but I haven't seen anyone else do that in decades).
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As to your actual question, I know it took years for me to figure out 'a stitch in time' (I kept mistakenly associating it with A Wrinkle In Time), which is one I can imagine fading out of use for certain classes of people as high-end clothes transition to nano- and other seamless material. (Now that I'm independent, of course, I'm only all too aware that yes, a stitch in time does save nine, so grab those threads and needles stat.)
Some other ones...(cheats and looks at Wikipedia to get the exact phrasings); as is with the one above, there certain assumptions re: culture and privilege in terms of whether the saying in question still might have some experiential teeth.
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typing. my kids learn keyboarding, which is.... wrong.
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One 'phrase' that's teetering on the brink of irrelevance: "YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND, LIKE A... wtf is a record anyway?"
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With so many devices going to a touch screen or being motion sensitive (like lights, faucets, and XBox Kinect), will "pushing your buttons" become as anachronistic as the Mix Tape?
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Obsolete phrases
For example, US statistics about industrial production and exports, which are classified into four-digit Standard Industrial Classification Codes, formerly had dozens of categories for various kinds of shoe machinery. By the same token, the statistics that tracked employment trends assigned tracked all kinds of worker skills related to shoe manufacturing.
About 30 years ago, when the US shoe industry sailed offshore and the computer industry took off, a reform of the SIC codes took place to accommodate the changes. In 1997, statisticians, rolled out a more detailed six-digit North American Industry Classification System.
To give an example of two phrases that you still might hear, "a flash in the pan" and "hanging fire" both refer to malfunctions of muzzle-loading firearms. Though in fact, the hobbyists who build and use those muskets might still experience, and definitely understand, those events.
One bizarre regional term sometimes heard in England is "dropping a clanger." It refers to a bygone cooking recipe or meal practice in which a farm cook would prepare pastries filled with meat at one end and jam at the other. The field worker would eat the meat-filled part first, and then the jam-filled part for dessert. Dropping this clanger before lunch would mix up the two parts; and probably break the pastry as well, resulting in an unappetizing mess. Hence, "dropping a clanger" as a mistake.
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I was just thinking about the 'gift horse' one yesterday, but someone already mentioned it.
All those nauticalisms - so many I didn't even know they were nauticalisms! So they are already obsolete but persistent:
*Don't sweat the small stuff
*The devil to pay and no pitch hot
*Between the devil and the deep blue sea
*The bitter end
I'm sure there's lots more; that's just top of head.
For clockwise: You know, I filled the house with analog clocks just to make sure my kids would learn to tell time on analog as well as digital (didn't have to worry too much, the school still teaches time-telling on analog).
But clockwise and counter-clockwise will still persist in anything that turns, like screws and jar lids. I can't see us replacing the term; I bet we'll continue to say clockwise, even if the term gets corrupted and shortened along the way.
Also bet we hang onto analog displays, even if they are driven digitally! :D
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