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

[Michael Biel]

On 8/27/2011 3:47 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> On 8/27/2011 2:31 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> 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,”

If we have to sacrifice "cassette player" to make room for "sexting" I 
have nocomplaints.  I never liked cassettes all that much anyway, but I 
am totally in favor of sexting!  (They probably have not deleted 
"cassette" only the player.)

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>> 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
> I regularly suggest that if anyone will show me the "f", I'll pronounce it.
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