Wait until he learns about the word smartphone.
It was just kind of a trend in the twenties to add the suffix “ie” to anything when something new was invented
Other examples?
We’re not much better, we’ve had tends for -r and -io.
Movr, movios.
Don’t forget dropping the last vowel! I wonder what they spend their vowel savings on…
Saving them up for a later trend probably. Moviesie.
Moviiiiis?
Is it wrong that I kind of like that one?
I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.
Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.
Most millenials grew up with floppy disks. You’re thinking of Gen Z and Gen Alpha
I know what it is but no idea how it works. I grew up with cassettes for music and CDs
Imagine if the guy who named movies with sound talkies also named movies… wait … oh no…
You should take longer showers so that you can think a bit more.
What is the word movie?
“movie”, the word.
Maybe this one
It’s a word movie, how do you not know this? /s
Bird is the word