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   Widdershins Smith ?? (juglugs@mastodon.juglugs.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 22:35:26 JST 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"

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 22:35:25 JST silverwizard

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     @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!
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     SHODAN :nonbinary: (shodan@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 23:39:17 JST SHODAN :nonbinary:

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     @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.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 23:40:58 JST silverwizard

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     @juglugs @SHODAN Anyone who did film studies has strong opinions that make no sense to me
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     SHODAN :nonbinary: (shodan@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 00:08:10 JST SHODAN :nonbinary:

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     @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.

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     aeva (aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 21:22:40 JST aeva

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     @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.

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