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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

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Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

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I also used colloquial. But then again auto correct is a bitch.

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