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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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Date: Apr. 28th, 2011 12:08 pm (UTC)
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Both of those things, though, take both time and energy to learn. Something that not all of us have in plentiful supply...

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Date: Apr. 28th, 2011 12:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] princessofgeeks
oh, certainly. but i am old enough to remember when we ALMOST went metric in the seventies. so close and yet so far....

i'll never learn dvorak now; it's too late for me. but if the whole country decided to teach fourth graders dvorak only? in a generation it would be done.

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Date: Apr. 29th, 2011 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] catspaw
I'm still not metric - I have to ask always, 'what's 500 g really?' I'm thankful that I'm not alone: it's still qutie possible, over here, to walk into a wood yard and ask for 2 metres of 2 by 4 ;-) And we always, *always* do cold in Centigrade and hot in Fahrenheit, what's with that?

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Date: Apr. 29th, 2011 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] catspaw
We prefer to think of it as 'ploughing our own furrow' ;-)

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