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> captured on film The article makes no further mentions of actual film, so presumably the phrase now also applies to digital photography?!
by tromp 3y ago
> captured on film
The article makes no further mentions of actual film,
so presumably the phrase now also applies to digital photography?!
- rsynnott 3y agoYep; English tends to hold onto these archaic references. People also still talk about getting things on tape etc.
- willcipriano 3y agoBack when things were on tape they would still call it film.
- eatonphil 3y agoWhen I listen to an audiobook on my phone it feels natural to say I'm listening to the book on tape.
- matt-attack 3y agoWe’ll also still dial a phone number despite dials being gone for a half-century.
- libraryatnight 3y agoWe see this sort of thing in computer icons, too. People who have never seen a real floppy but recognize it as a "save" icon. It's kind of neat how this evolves.
- calamari4065 3y agoSame way you still dial a phone or roll up a window.
- grogenaut 3y agoThe window is still going up via the same rolling mechanism there's just a motor doing it. Source I replaced my window motor and regulator this month
- mc32 3y agobut windows cannot be rolled up... they could be cranked up, or pushed up, or slid up, but they're not pliable enough to be rolled up.
- retrac 3y agoThere's a term for that: linguistic skeuomorph. With a stylus on a tablet was how the ancient Romans and Sumerians wrote. That imagery and history is evoked when those words are used to refer to portable computers. They were chosen by analogy with historical understanding. It's like when you pattern the plastic tiles to make the floor look stone or wood. There are iconographic skeuomorphs too, like when someone born in the 21st century taps a floppy disk icon on their computer to copy data, when they have never seen a physical floppy disk.