Wordie: Bookmark: Comments

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:08:29 +0000

They do, rocks, but they smell very different from new ones. Especially the leatherbound old ones. :-)

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:07:43 +0000

Thanks, uselessness! I did forget. *slaps forehead*

Comment by rocksinmypockets, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:00:26 +0000

Books smell good when they're old, too. :)

Comment by uselessness, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:59:34 +0000

Check out above the fold, and don't forget that comments are searchable now. ;-)

Comment by reesetee, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:48:56 +0000

Books won't go away. They smell too good when they're new. :-)

C_b, somewhere on Wordie (can't remember exactly where--anyone?), a few of us had a discussion similar to this about words that have acquired new meanings now that computers are ubiquitous. I remember some Wordies saying that they never had to physically "cut" or "paste" anything while writing/editing--although I vividly remember doing so myself.

Comment by SonofGroucho, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:33:17 +0000

Isn't dwindle a lovely word?

Comment by John, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:29:53 +0000

Interesting thought. I agree with uselessness, but even if books go away they'll persist like ghosts in our language, unnoticed. The way we all know what it is to be "on tenterhooks", without having any idea what a tenterhook is.

Comment by uselessness, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:09:00 +0000

Books will dwindle, but I doubt people will ever forget about them entirely...

Comment by chained_bear, 11 months ago

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:59:12 +0000

I was wondering, last night, when in the course of human events this word will become as archaic and weird-sounding as, say, firkin. Will people one day wonder why those things you put on "favorite" lists in your web browser are called "bookmarks"? Will the Wordies of two centuries from now argue about its origins and etymology?