Maybe in America. I live in the UK and my house is 150 years old. I grew up in one that's nearly 300 years old.
You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".
Or in alternate reallity: "You think that's bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention "Cinema" before his father in law reasoned with him to call it "Domitor"."
@Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, "dominator". He thought it would dominate.
They ended up going with the Greek word "kínēma" which means movement, hence movie cameras were "cinematographs" - movement writers.
But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :)
I see what you did there, but I would probably not recommend walking around while watching a movie in VR.
It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix "ie" to anything when something new was invented
Don't forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on...
Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies... wait .. oh no..
Do they....?
I'll be honest, I haven't heard anyone say that ever when using a phone.
Maybe "videos" as a verb but generally "records" in my experience
I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.
Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.
Ah, you must be from gen Z.
Yes new generations will continually be created and older generations will always sneer at them.
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