A timely thought

[sid]

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!")

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[lurkingcat]

CC doesn't mean what it used to.

(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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[shiyiya]

My elementary school had a bunch of carbon paper that I suspect had been discarded from someone's office at the after school club! This would be in the late nineties. It was FASCINATING :P

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[lurkingcat]

I know! You type or write or draw something and magically there is a copy of it! It was great stuff :)

When Mum moved on to using a word processor and a printer my brother kept all the carbon paper for making copies of all his technical drawings of his 'inventions' (which were usually things that involved Lego, elastic bands, random bits of cutlery and a Wile E Coyote approach to physics).

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[sid]

As far as I know, CC is still the standard. But I've noticed that when my attorney copies me on something there is only one C! Maybe that old usage is being questioned now.

I probably have made carbon copies (using loose sheets of carbon paper) somewhere in my past. *g* Who can remember back that far? I know I typed a lot of 3-part forms. Some had carbon layers between and some made carbonless copies.

Hi!

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[lurkingcat]

I think CC is still the standard because the terminology made its way into email programs but one of the apprentices (they're all in the 16-19 age group) asked what it actually meant a few weeks ago and their tutor turned up in my server room to grumble that this made him feel old, which is why I remembered it when I saw the link to your post :)

And hello and thank you for asking the question! It's really interesting seeing what everyone else has thought of.

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[sid]

I was hoping that people would have a lot to say! :-)

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[lurkingcat]

I'm wondering about 'I wouldn't touch X with a barge pole' now. Not everyone seems to get what that one means any more.

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[sid]

Your average person doesn't run across too many barges, true!