[lit-ideas] Re: Your Favorite Misnomer
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 15:46:07 -0400
**Aren't they called: "retronyms". Some others are dialing (newer
phones do not have rotary dials) -- silent motion pictures were once
called "movies," while the addition of sound to films had them initially
named "talkies."
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
Andy Amago wrote:
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> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sep 2, 2004 2:01 AM
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Your Favorite Misnomer
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>>>We used to have a bookcase in the front hall with a piece of red
>>>carpeting on the top -- a landing place for keys, glasses, mail and bits
>>>of this and that on its way from one place to another. At least fifteen
>>>years ago, the bookcase was replaced, moved down the hall and covered by
>>>a new carpet, not red at all. To this day we all still say, "I'll leave
>>>it on the red carpet for you." You just don't mess with things like
>>>that...
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>>I like that. I like the notion that names can overtake their referent.
>>Someday I'll sit down and cogitate what that all means. How much of our
>>lives are spent reverencing names that have become thier own referent?
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> For example, "Green cards" aren't green. These have been pink for quite some
> time now.
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> Or carbon copy. I know these lists are strictly for fun, but not one person
> cared enough to give Lance some wishes for his trauma.
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> Onward to more fun,
> Andy
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> yrs,
> andreas
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