Rob Cannon
Widdershins Smith 🐘🥏I was reading about the silent film era and thinking about how silly the word "talkie" is, and was then forced to really consider, for the first time, the word "movie"
Ms AB ☕@juglugs Oh!!!
silverwizard@juglugs The fact that the community has decided to call the things that are studied "films" annoys me
Talkie and Movie are at least still descriptive!
Talkie and Movie are at least still descriptive!
SHODAN 
@silverwizard @juglugs "film" over "movie" seems to be the preferred term in British English over here in the UK at least. Just seems to be the way our variant of English has evolved.
@silverwizard @juglugs Yeah it doesn't really matter ultimately, everyone knows what your talking about. "film" I suppose is also technically an obsolete term because of the decline of using 35mm and such over the past 10 years or so.
Rizal@juglugs
The word movies only makes sense if you use the word stillies for photographs and doggies for dogs
The word movies only makes sense if you use the word stillies for photographs and doggies for dogs
Lyons
doesn't think before speaking
Infocalypse Now@juglugs Looking forward to our AI overlords being called "thinkies"
Yaoi Box Balloon@juglugs Don't have that problem in Ireland because there you watch a filum.
Sharon Gibson Morgan@juglugs My daughter was watching old Charlie Chaplin and Harold Floyd movies on PBS one Saturday. She was thoroughly enjoying them. She turned to me and said, "Mama, I just love these speechless movies!" 😃
Art Hackett@juglugs The first time? I guess you just get used to stuff, till you think about it.
Devo 
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aeva@juglugs I mean calling it a "film" these days is pretty silly since everything's all digital now by the time you're watching it.
Peter@juglugs it does imply the existence of "stillies"
Peter Relph@juglugs
The British term 'film' probably covers both.
The British term 'film' probably covers both.
Larry Garfield@juglugs Same for "selfie".
Angelique Sophia
Parzival Charge@juglugs thankfully when they introduced surround sound in the 70s they didn't call it the feelies!
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@juglugs Yes. We missed a beat when shooties were given the ghastly cumbersome moniker "first person shooters."
eishiya@fgbjr Shooties is a superset though, since third-person shooters exist.
I am not entirely opposed to calling them first/third-person shooties, though.
D2@juglugs @stopthatgirl7 yep. “thing that ____s” ==> ___ie has a distinct 1900-1930’s slang (22-skidoo, hoosegow, zozzle , giggle-juice) kind of vibe.
Stop That@cascheranno @juglugs All of those just made my brain break a little, and all I can think is how, in 100 years, our current slang is going to make the folks of the future’s brains break.
Jennifer Slack@juglugs
So perhaps we should be calling films digies?
So perhaps we should be calling films digies?
LJ from the 412
Drew GeisheckerWatch The Passion of Joan of Arc, though.
It helps contextualize how difficult the comparison between pre- and post-sound really is.
Falconetti's performance (though silent) is perhaps the greatest ever committed to film.
Strange@juglugs at least the Sorkin style walk and talk isn't called a walkie talkie. Starting to see a pattern here though.
plinth@juglugs Brave New World makes more sense now, doesn't it?
Dr Susi Arnott@juglugs Replying on my handy (I'm not German, but picked up their term for mobiles 'cos I like it)
Mark Mason@juglugs personally I call 3D movies ‘depthies’.