‘Cassette tape’ kicked out of ‘Oxford English Dictionary’ edition. I STILL HAVE THOSE!

[Liberal_in_LA]

THEY ARE STILL SOLD!!! How can they remove a currently sold item from the dictionary!!!!

‘Cassette tape’ kicked out of ‘Oxford English Dictionary’ edition

Wordsmiths over at the Oxford English Dictionary say “cassette tape” has been removed from the pages of its Concise edition to make room for words such as retweet and cyberbullying, USA Today reported earlier this month. (Note: The word will remain in the unabridged version.)

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the article goes on to list "items your kids may never know" including a car window crank I still crank my damn car window!!



http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2011/10/17/cassette-tape-kicked-out-of-oxford-english-dictionary/#1417-12

[underpants]

1. I destroyed my copy of Game Theory's "Lolita Nation" vacuuming out my car

:nopity:

[tridim]

2. Is "8 Track" still in there?

I tossed my all my cassettes and VHS tapes about 10 years ago.

[Luminous Animal]

3. My 21 year old daughter and her friends record on cassette and play cassettes all the time.

[Hardrada]

10. I still use them to tape classical music now and then.

I have a big collection of classical performances on cassette tapes and these are available practically nowhere else so, of course, I hang onto them.

[sufrommich]

12. That's pretty amazing for 20 somethings. nt

[Wilms]

15. Impressive actually.

I heard an NPR report about a sub-culture use of cassettes. Here's a reference to cassette-based record labels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_culture#21st_century


My favorite label names from that list are: Already Dead Tapes, Obsolete Audio Formats, Roaches Watch TV, and Tapeworm. :D

[tridim]

4. One of the comments made a good point, "Dictionary" is an antique word too.

At least bound, paper versions are.

I haven't used one since the early 90's

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. I used my dictionary the other day.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. My 18 year old son got a used car with crank windows.

A BASIC car. Wheels and and engine :D. That's all he needed and that's what he got. No bells and whistles.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. radio? air conditioner?

[in_cog_ni_to]

24. No radio, but yes...AC (gotta have AC in Illinois).

He put a radio in it himself which plays his iPod). It didn't come with one. He also had to use a key to lock and unlock the doors (he put a security system in it so he can now lock with a fob). NOTHING electrical in the car (other than the mechanical stuff..wipers, heater, AC, defrost). Manual seats, windows and locks were all the car had. Bottom of the line...except AC. :)

[Divine Discontent]

29. I have a cassette (and CD) player in my car and NO AC, and I'm in FL.

I wish I had the funds to have a nice car, but I'm thankful I have one at all.


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[postulater]

8. A few years ago my daughter asked what an

Astronaut is. I suggested she look it up in one of our dictionaries. When she said it wasn't in there I jokingly told her to give me the dictionary. Sure enough it wasn't there, then I saw the dictionary was published in 1958. I like to collect old dictionaries.

[PoliticAverse]

9. And Reel-to-Reel ? n/t

[northoftheborder]

11. As someone who refuses to "tweet" much less "retweet", and, who has an old boombox....

....that has a tape player, and tapes you can play on it, I am officially a last century hold-over.......x( :( :shrug: :argh:

[Raine]

13. I've got a bunch of cassettes tapes and I have a player for

them too.

[robinlynne]

14. I agree 100%!!!!!!!!!!! Hang on, Dinosaur is in the dictionary, isn't it?

[sufrommich]

16. I also imagine the phone book is about to go the way of the

dinosaur. When I find one of those big books on my porch, they go straight to the trash.

[BillyJack]

17. Hell yeah....I need more cassette tapes.....I'm getting tired of listening to the beach boys

in my 1991 Honda (with 250,000+ miles).....great car, btw....

I call it the "poor wo/man's sports car" :D

[tiny elvis]

18. a pronocuous abdirection on oxford's part

dictionarial impreclusion must milinimate phrases in dereferance to single words

[Kat45]

19. I watched the slide show at the link and I have most of the items today.

Why are answering machines on the list? What do people use now--voice mail from your phone/cell company? I think the machine is much more convenient as you don't have to make a phone call to get your messages. I also have car window cranks in my car.

And I'm curious about cassette tapes: I used to do a lot of interviews when writing for a magazine and I would tape them. What do journalists use now when they're doing a long interview? Don't they use cassettes anymore?

[Luminous Animal]

20. They record digitally!

[Kat45]

22. So if I wanted to inteview again, I'd have to buy a different recorder?

I've never seen a digital recorder. (Yeah, I'm old.) Are they more expensive? I used a transcription machine when I transcribed the tapes. How would I transcribe from this type of recorder?

[Fumesucker]

31. My cell phone has a voice recorder built in that has nearly unlimited capacity..

And it's far from a new model, so far in fact that I don't even have cell service for it any more, now I just use it as an alarm clock and to play MP3s on.. It's quite a good recorder in fact, I could easily record an interview on it.

As for transcription, you'd just transfer the file with the interview to your PC (should only take moments) and listen to it on that using something like this setup..

http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html

[MilesColtrane]

21. I still have about 300 cassettes.

And, I just recently had to replace my electric metronome by buying one off of eBay since they stopped making them about 15 years ago. :(

No doubt about it, I'm freaking old.

[Iggo]

23. '...items your kids may never know...'

Yeah. So what?

They still know what "roll down your window" and "don't touch that dial" mean, even though they may never have actually done either one.

[JVS]

25. Well it is the concise edition

[sarcasmo]

26. I do as well, 200 or so classic rock tapes and a portable sony cassette player.

[RebelOne]

27. I have a lot of cassettes. I play them on my cassette player

in my car. I also have a CD player in the car and plenty of CDs. When will they be outdated?

[thelordofhell]

28. car window crank

I'm really going to have a problem if I can't find a car without power windows and doors when I finally need to get another car.

[Divine Discontent]

30. that seems odd to do, it's a real thing. concice edition must mean current, or such?

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