rodentraiser Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 http://mentalfloss.com/article/64669/15-common-expressions-younger-generations-wont-understand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 I wonder what terms our grandchildren use to express the same concepts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 2 hours ago, havanaholly said: I wonder what terms our grandchildren use to express the same concepts. I think they're using many of the same terms. However, they likely don't know the origin of most of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodentraiser Posted September 28, 2016 Author Share Posted September 28, 2016 I didn't know why we "turned" things on and off. And I always wondered what kids today think of the word "dial" as in dialing someone up on the phone. Can you imagine using the word "dial" with no idea of the connotation of where it came from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armymom166 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 Oh, my, I'm old. Very, very old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kathi17 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 It's interesting to look up the origins of words. My grandmother always called cast iron frying pans "spiders", so a couple of years ago, I looked it up and found out why. I also found out why my aunt, and some of the other old folks where I grew up always called a chimney a "chimbley"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 My grandmother also called chimneys "chimbleys". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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