The House of Olivier EU@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhich word do you dislike most?message-squaremessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up141
arrow-up141message-squareWhich word do you dislike most?The House of Olivier EU@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square107fedilink
minus-squareDeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days ago“Walkie-Talkie” Its a “Handheld Transceiver” ffs, who the fuck gave it such a stupid name lmfao Is a Telephone a “Chit-y-Chat-y”? A computer a “Beep-ie-Boop-ie”?
minus-squareTaco2112@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·23 hours agoAnd who would ever use a childish word like “movie”? It’s called a moving picture.
minus-squarerichieadler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 hours agoThe sandwich bit is nonsense, given that it owes his name to the Earl of Sandwich AFAIK.
minus-squareStovetop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 hours agoThe Earl of Sandwich invents the sophisticated breaddystack only for the plebs to just refer to it by its inventor. Imagine inventing the morphodynamic semioscillating inverter only for the uneducated commons to call it a “Jimothy” or something.
minus-squareThe House of Olivier EU@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoIf you want to go deeper about that word: The earliest known use of the noun walkie-talkie is in the 1930s. OED’s earliest evidence for walkie-talkie is from 1939, in the San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas). walkie-talkie
“Walkie-Talkie”
Its a “Handheld Transceiver” ffs, who the fuck gave it such a stupid name lmfao
Is a Telephone a “Chit-y-Chat-y”? A computer a “Beep-ie-Boop-ie”?
And who would ever use a childish word like “movie”? It’s called a moving picture.
Relevant greentext:
The sandwich bit is nonsense, given that it owes his name to the Earl of Sandwich AFAIK.
The Earl of Sandwich invents the sophisticated breaddystack only for the plebs to just refer to it by its inventor. Imagine inventing the morphodynamic semioscillating inverter only for the uneducated commons to call it a “Jimothy” or something.
If you want to go deeper about that word:
The earliest known use of the noun walkie-talkie is in the 1930s.
OED’s earliest evidence for walkie-talkie is from 1939, in the San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, Texas).
walkie-talkie