[78-L] The end of a format "era"

[Julian Vein]

On 27/08/11 17:29, Steve Ramm wrote:
> I just leared about this today from a small article in Time mag. An "era" passes:"In order to make room for more modern, soon-to-be-eternal terminology such as “sexting,” “retweet,” “woot,” and “jeggings,” the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has been forced to clear away obsolete brush like “cassette player,” which previously defined the system of cranks and pulleys used by man to extract the sounds of El DeBarge from crude spools of magnetic tape. While it will technically linger on in the unabridged edition of the OED, as well as the memories of old and boring people who drone on and on about how they used to have to purchase albums, “cassette player” is being phased out" 		 	   		
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These are words that I'm unlikely to ever use. Another word that should 
be removed is "lieutenant". I've never used it in casual conversation, 
except to debate its pronunciation.

      Julian Vein