Words we no longer use here

Gaslighting

Sealioning

Agenda

Twin

Is the fact that words go out of use an indication, that the ideas behind those words vanished?

@ponderable said
Is the fact that words go out of use an indication, that the ideas behind those words vanished?

@torunn said
... or go out of fashion, or are replaced by words that better match our reality.

@ponderable said
Or replaced by "euphemisms" which begin to stink very soon and lose their originally positive meaning (Gift in Germany is poison, has been the same as in English, but been misused)

@the-gravedigger said
Twin

Typewriter.

Record player. Took my 17-yr old to a second-hand shop the other day where she saw one. She didn’t know what it was. There happened to be some vinyl long-play records there, too. I showed her how I grew up listening to music; blank incomprehension on her face. ‘Daddy, why didn’t you just Spotify?’ (Yeah, I know, verbing weirds language, but that would be another thread topic.)

Twice is now two times on tv news.

Moment has become "point in time"

The post that was quoted here has been removed

@pompas said
Kicking a dead horse?