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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"

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in reply to Widdershins Smith 🐘πŸ₯

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!

in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard "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.
in reply to SHODAN

Anyone who did film studies has strong opinions that make no sense to me
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard 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.
in reply to Widdershins Smith 🐘πŸ₯

I mean calling it a "film" these days is pretty silly since everything's all digital now by the time you're watching it.
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