Do you mean as a synonym for 'recorded' ? If so, then in my experience they don't.
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How about "hang up the phone"? "Roll down the window"?
My van still has manual windows.
People still use hang up in the UK
Blim the Pixie from AWOL ?
Yes, congratulations on being the first ever person to recognise it
Young ones apparently often say "buttoned" not hang up
Makes sense I guess
I haven't heard that before
I have never heard that but NGL I kind of like how "can you button up the window, please" sounds
There's a lot of words we still use, even though the thing it referred to is no longer readily used. Hanging up the phone has been mentioned as one, but we sometimes still "dial" a phone number on our smartphones using the "dialpad", even though dial-up telephones are no longer readily used. Cut, copy, and paste refer to cutting up / copying a bit of paper and pasting it on another document, but in the digital age it means to move data into and out of the (digital) clipboard. The word clipboard now refers primarily to the digital version, as the physical ones are less common in comparison. We still film videos, even though most video cameras are digital. Most people don't use gloveboxes to store gloves. Uppercase and lowercase letters referred to the drawers used to store the moveable type for typewriters, which most people don't use anymore. Podcasts referred to the popular iPod, which is no longer sold by Apple. Software patches used to refer to how parts of paper tape and punched cards were cut out and replaced with literal patches to modify the program.* Stock footage is no longer stored in "stockrooms". Individual songs are still referred to as "tracks", even though vinyl is no longer ubiquitous. "Hot off the press" referred to how newspapers feel warm when recently printed, but now just refers to fresh media (usually not paper-based). To "sack" someone no longer involves an actual sack where they put all their things in, it just means to dismiss somebody from a job.
~~a lot~~ all of the ones I mentioned came from this source: https://englishinprogress.net/blog/30-examples-of-anachronyms/
relevant xkcd (there is one for everything): https://xkcd.com/3075/
As this xkcd comic shows, there are loads of anachronyms, like:
- tin foil (referring to foil made of aluminium) is sometimes used
- sponges (the scrubby) are no longer made of actual (sea) sponge (the animal)
- silverware isn't always made of silver anymore, most people own those made of stainless steel
- linens don't always refer to bedding made of linen (the fabric)
- clothes irons and the act of ironing no longer involves iron, modern "irons" are made of stainless steel
- many glasses now use plastic lenses, not glass
- "9 iron" refers to a golf club, being that they are now made with materials like stainless steel. Presumably wood is another type of golf club that is no longer made of wood, but I haven't heard of that term
- sidewalk chalk (the kind for drawing) is no longer made of chalk (the rock)
- rubber ducks are majorly made of plastic nowadays
And the title text of the xkcd also notes that paper money is still called that, despite it now being composed of other materials with better durability and security.
*Note that the term "bug" did not, in fact, actually come from a literal bug. The term "bug" was already being used to describe annoying things (this is "bugging" me, for example), and the story of the moth trapped in a computer causing an issue was fictional. It was noted as a joke by Grace Hopper (a great pioneer in computing by the way, she developed some of the first computing languages!)
IMO, steel should get a pass. The atomic element of iron still makes up like 98% of most steels, and when you look at the history of smithing the difference between iron and steel can get pretty hard.
That's fair. Stainless steel isn't made almost entirely of iron though, usually there's around 20ish percent of chromium and something like 10% of nickel and other metals. It depends on what kind you're dealing with though, since different amounts of each element in the alloy are used for different applications.
Definitely not 98% iron content though, it's probably more like 65ish percent, give or take a bit depending on the alloy.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/stainless-steel
Brittanica says that stainless steel with very high corrosion resistance can have up to 35% nickel and 16 to 26% chromium, meaning iron makes up less than half of the alloy. In contrast, steels that are used in areas where corrosion resistance is not as important, no nickel is used and 10.5 to 27% of chromium is used, making the amount of iron relatively high. Very interesting.
Thanks, I didn't know that steel is often an alloy with such high amounts of other elements! I only went off the carbon content, which is usually around 1%.
...and IPods could not actually stream, so they couldn't use Podcasts.
My favorite is when we want someone to lower the window in the car, we still use the "rolling down" gesture from cars with hand cranked windows.
I dont even know what that means lol
It means "recorded". Usually referring to video, and more in the past, audio. Based on the tape formats of VHS and audio cassettes.
I'm the olden days before the Internet, we'd tape a note to our smartphone then ship it to Google, who would read the note and put the videos you wanted on it, and post it back.
ok reading peoples interpretation helps a lot. I thought you were saying taped was some kind of slang but you mean I taped something vs recorded or such. I honestly just don't record stuff enough now and did not back in the day I think for taped to stick. Sure I would call it taped but it was not so everyday that it ingrained as the thing. I mean I think sometimes would say they videod it or such sometimes. Ironically I think filmed has stuck around more than taped.
My parents still do (these days to mean recording something on their DVR). I don't think young people really watch TV like that do they?
They record with their phone constantly though... I tend to say taped for that
That's true. I would always say "filmed" for that which come to think of it alludes to even older technology.
There's a breathing hole in my door that wasps keep crawling into so I taped it shut. But I guess I'm old too
I haven't ever heard taped before but it sounds like it might be a regional thing maybe?
Taped as in, to record something on VHS. If there was a show on broadcast TV and you want to watch it later, you "taped" it.
Oh, that makes way more sense. I'm not sure why but I thought OP meant it being used like "man, that's so taped" or something lol.
Yeah though, I'm nearly 30 and have used and continue to use taped as a synonym for recording something
"man, that's so taped"
ooh let's make this a thing
I'm old (37) and I don't even use the word "taped" anymore. And what context would it be in? Entertainment is all streamed on-demand nowadays, nobody is worried about preserving a broadcast for later. The closest thing I can think of would be a VOD of a livestream.
I think it would be either "saved" or "clipped" now.
Probably the context of taking a video recording, which is as common as ever with smartphones.
Aren't they still using adhesive tape?
no it's all digital now. you have to use an app
An app...lique?
Sewing jokes aside, this would be a nightmare, where something as basic as a bandage requires an app to unlock the dispenser. Dead phone? I guess only death awaits...
My teen has used it recently ….. he had no clue where it came from, and didn’t know there was a difference between CDs and DVDs
I think they do. I'll ask the Google! /s