• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 days ago

    Not to mentioned the phrases that probably never were used before cellphones.

    Saying “I will text you!” would have been a really weird statement just 50 years ago…

  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    “Where are you?” is not something that many people would have said aloud outside of a game of hide and seek before the advent of pay phones and only rarely until the turn of the century or so.