I thought it was a sexual reference.I remember when “selfie” first made it into use.
I thought it was a sexual reference.I remember when “selfie” first made it into use.
Me too. But we will all be calling them that in ten years. American English goes to the lowest common denominator. I remember when “selfie” first made it into use. I hated it. It’s a self portrait. As a photographer it drives me nuts. Less now though. Of course “movie” is also abhorent. Why not just say we’re going to the “talkie”? I think I need to go listen to some spinnies to calm down.
That's the lovely thing about the Long Playing vinyl records developed by Peter Goldmark of Columbia records in the late 1940s - they are an endless source of arguments:Me too. But we will all be calling them that in ten years. American English goes to the lowest common denominator. I remember when “selfie” first made it into use. I hated it. It’s a self portrait. As a photographer it drives me nuts. Less now though. Of course “movie” is also abhorent. Why not just say we’re going to the “talkie”? I think I need to go listen to some spinnies to calm down.
Well that settles it.Oxford Dictionary,
RECORD
"a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form."
Well that settles it.
A fabrication of highly and selectively edited materials, usually distorted beyond all recognition.Vinyl records can’t be evidence. They are lies, all lies.
I sincerely doubt that the linguistically abhorrent term "vinyls" appeared prior to the 21st century. I blame it on the kids.
Me too. But we will all be calling them that in ten years. American English goes to the lowest common denominator. I remember when “selfie” first made it into use. I hated it. It’s a self portrait. As a photographer it drives me nuts. Less now though. Of course “movie” is also abhorent. Why not just say we’re going to the “talkie”? I think I need to go listen to some spinnies to calm down.
Like the fact that with everyone having a "smart phone" now, no one owns a proper computer or camera any more either.Personally and IMHO, "selfie" doesn't bother me as much except for the fact that well, now people call ALL mobile phone taken photographs "selfies"- that bothers me - Not the only one though; check the John Oliver riff on it!
For most people, though, that level of assolocity (pronounced like the word 'velocity') is adequate for most purposes.Like the fact that with everyone having a "smart phone" now, no one owns a proper computer or camera any more either.
So they can only accomplish those tasks in a half ass'd manner.
That, and 'singles'.I only remember myself and everyone I knew calling them records.
Yeah, our parents blamed a lot on us when we were kids too. At least we grew up and didn't repeat their behaviours.I sincerely doubt that the linguistically abhorrent term "vinyls" appeared prior to the 21st century. I blame it on the kids.
The UK-based Hi-Fi News and Record Review magazine, in its Contents page, names one of the sections VINYL AND RECORD REVIEWS. Parse that!“Vinyls.”
I’m not saying it’s a good reason for bringing back firing squads but…
Besides, we never talked about vinyl records before the end of the 1980s...I only remember myself and everyone I knew calling them records.
In France, in any case, we never called a microgroove record a vinyl before the end of the 1980s when this term appeared... when we were bombarded with the "return of vinyl still used by DJs, in addition, we could possibly have said PVC, but not vinyl because the 33 and 45 rpm records are not made of vinyl, but of PVC loaded with carbon powder... PVC being the abbreviation of polyvinyl chloride... like LP that of Long Playing... and Vinyl alone is the abbreviation of nothing at all.There are so many names for them, that trying to be pedantic just looks….pedantic!
Sometimes they were called 33rpm records, sometimes LP records, sometimes microgroove records, and indeed, they were referred to as vinyl records, being an important differentiator from their immediate predecessor, the shellac record.
Vinyl, as a short form for vinyl records, is no less appropriate than LP as a short form for LP records. Hypocrisy?
They even got popularly referred to as albums, despite being typically a single disc, and the word album being specifically intended for packaged bundles of multiple shellac records to cover longer works or compilations. Like a photo album.
So why aren’t people being skewered for calling them albums? That’s actually, by definition, wrong.
Black Frisbees gained traction in the 90s….
LP was common "in ma yoof"I only remember myself and everyone I knew calling them records.
LP was common "in ma yoof"
Album was also common - but I think that equally applies to CD
"Did you get the album on CD or LP?"