Idioms that might leave our language due to tech advances

I remember when 3.5" used to be called a "hard disc".

This was to differentiate them from the 5" floppies that were actually pliable and also still in common use as a media format.

Over time 3.5" became known as "floppies" too because of their similarity to the 5" plus the term was just a lot easier to say.

Language is a lot like water, it often follows the path of least resistance, whether we want it to or not.

 

I think it's going to be a lot harder for newer idioms / sayings to take root and have any sort of staying power.

With the way social media moves and how fast culture shifts, memes and sayings come and go quickly.

 

with self-driving cars another casualty

 

Considering Chinese will be the only language by 2150, I guess all of them?

 

Hit the hay

 

Just tape it (recording something on TV while you’re gone)

 

Hit the nail on the head.

 

except that in this case technology is unlikely to do away with nails via tech advances

 

Yep. I used a hammer to hit a nail today.

 

Thank you, Jeeves, that will be all.

Costs an arm and a leg.
Piece of cake.
Up in the air.
Stabbed in the back.
Rule of thumb.
Go to the head.

 

the pen is mightier than the sword

 

I’m taking my buggy whip to the ice mines, my dear!

 

‘Put some elbow grease into it’

We’ll probably hear this less and less as the days of every guy being a mechanic are done. Cars are disposable; you either take the car into the shop or replace it.

 

"That 8 track go HARD!"

 

No one ever said that.

 

They did. Just ask Jeeves.

Slight alternatives were "This 8 track be bumpin" and "This 8 track, hard AF"

 

bring home the bacon

Spoiler: discussion at

discussion at
https://jonathanturley.org/2021/01/...animal-insults-as-supremacist-and-speciesist/

 

Dialing a phone didn't die with the rotary phone. People still use it even if it makes no sense. People in court still ask for surveillance tapes, like most places are recording their CCTV with a VCR nowadays. Technology moves faster than the lexicon, and I expect that will continue.

 

Totally disagree.

All the downlikes. Again totally disagree.