I just have to ask. · 7:41am Jun 16th, 2012
Am I the only one who thinks it's oddly old fashioned when people say "motion pictures" instead of movies? Just that the term came from those old nickelodeon machines that were literally pictures in motion, so to me it's like if everyone ran around calling cars "automobiles". I dunno, it's been nagging at me for a while. I know it's got nothing to do with anything, nor is it nearly important enough to warrant a blog post where I could be giving you guys news on the future of "Study Buddies" or "Grimoire" for those of you interested, but seeing as how very little that I do is important: it's getting a blog post.
By the way:
--Study Buddies is due for continuation once Grimoire is done.
--Grimoire is still in the works and I'd say about two-thirds of the way through, based on what I want to do with it.
--When I do continue Study Buddies, I'll be going back and re-editing every single chapter from start to finish, I'm doing this for two reasons
1) I can re-write the story in past tense and clean up some errors in consistency and/or horrid grammar problems I used to have.
2) I can remember exactly where I was and where I'll be going with it so that there aren't any continuity errors in the future.
So look forward to more stories from me! I also may be doing a few more one-shots in the mean time. Hopefully not as woefully bad as "The F-Bomb", but that's up to you guys to decide.
Anyway... what's up with people saying "motion pictures"?! God damn that bugs me.
Study Buddies in past tense? Yay for grammar!
"movie" seems like a word that a child would make
"motion picture" is less retarded, but also less common (just like QWERTY and Dvorak!)
Well, "movie" is derived from "moving picture", which is the same as motion picture...
Which is why I call them films
And yay for the other things!
177407 Well yes, but that's a derivation. Considering today's culture and the insane level of language bastardization it just seems out of place to call them "Moving Pictures" or "Motion Pictures". That's my two bits anyway.
'Films' are increasingly dated too, because increasingly, movies - motion pictures - are recorded digitally now, for many reasons. To use the word 'film' is a bit like calling a blue-ray player a VCR. Yes, they both play audio-visual media, but the substrate is vastly different.
I think we get stuck with legacy words and symbols - like the 3.5 floppy disk icon for saving data, even though such things are no longer around. Or a hand-set rotary dial phone symbol, in an age where everyone uses cell-phones.
Maybe we are just stuck with legacy terms because technology changes faster than language.
'Motion Picture' at least has the virtue of being accurate; whatever the substrate or method of projection, we are dealing with sequential, still images - pictures - flashing by so as to create the illusion of motion. 'Film' makes less sense, because what does it mean? A film of algae floating on a lake? The film of plaque on one's morning teeth? Motion pictures are digital now, at least the big ones are.
'Movies' seem like a normal linguistic erosion - given enough time, complex words and terms tend to be rounded, softened, and abbreviated. Linguistic erosion happens in all languages. It just seems to be a human thing to want a simple, fast word when the excitement over something fades, and it becomes everyday. 'Telephone' and 'cell-phone' have eroded to just 'phone'. 'Television' has eroded to many to become simply 'Telly'.
I think it's just a matter of using what is most common - unless one is trying to write within a given time period. Obviously, if one is writing about the turn of the century, 'Moving Pictures' or 'Motion Pictures' would be more common than today, when people go to the 'movies' without a thought. In the sixties, one would watch a 'film', but the term is a carry over, a meaningless relic when we watch something on YouTube. It's almost slang.
Or so I think.
Meh, my understanding of words is so convoluted that I consider Films, Movies and Motion pictures to all be separate things. Mix and match as you please because each word means the same thing but different from each other.
I rather enjoy viewing the motion pictures, particularly before imbibing alcoholic beverages at the local tavern with a group of women of ill repute.
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Well dunno about live action pictures anymore. I do think some of the films produced this time pretty much go down the drain when it comes to creativity development. I pretty much don't appreciate them anymore I guess but that's me.
Animated films is another story. But Japanese anime films were very ok.
Study Buddies.....Continued....REVISED GRAMMAR FIX NJKVDHDKLSNJJNCK I'm sorry you seem to have broken me
What could be wrong with motion pictures baby? You're all wet! Now if ya don't mind, I'm gonna get in my horseless carriage and go to town! dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/Vinyl_Scratch_lolface.png
Tell the truth Samsara, the MPAA just sent you a threatening letter, didn't they?
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People don't say QWERTY?
...this makes me sad face.
Study Buddies!
1) I can re-write the story in past tense
*fist pump*
I agree with you about the "motion pictures" thing. It sounds completely outdated. It was only called that in the first place because the technology was so new at the time that they couldn't think of a word for it besides describing exactly what it was—a picture that moved. We stopped calling cars "horseless carriages" ages ago, I'm surprised the term "motion picture" has survived for so long.
177707 I wouldn't say "threatening"... "Strongly worded against my opinion" is a better description
178096 That's my point, and also why it bugs me, not that I have a problem with holding onto original things, but it just seems odd that the movie industry is the only thing to cling onto that when so many things (like telephones, television, automobiles, railroads, personal flight and others) have abandoned their old names and switched to the new, bastardized usages that we all know today.
177958 Dvorak is less common than QWERTY, but also less retarded
From my point of view the term motion picture is better than film for modern, well, movies (And I prefer movies over either). Motion Picture describes that which you are seeing very well. You are watching a picture in motion, not a static picture without motion, regardless of the medium; thus Motion Picture.
Daily life is filled with carry-over words from a previous time. They form part of the timeline of technology and culture. Also there is a legal aspect to certain terms. The Motion Picture Industry, is itself a reference in the creation documents of many organizations and companies. To change the word, they would have to re-organize as legal entities, which is no small feat for a companies and organizations over 100 years old.
You might also say the use of older words is a comfort to those who are older themselves. I come from a generation where the movie theater received films in cans and ran them on old sprocket projectors, and the greatest computer in our house before my teens was a very expensive Texan Instruments scientific calculator.
You will find in time that language shifts at its own pace.Today's super modern word of the day will in a decade or so seem like a horrible reminder of the good old days, (FAB, Rad, Bee's knees, Jive, Space-age, out of sight!, etc...) whereas some words stand the test of time for no apparent reason what so ever. And you never know when the old word will regain it's old meaning again. We pretty much gave up turntables in the 90s, and yet they and vinyl records are making a small comeback.
Just my two bits.
Know what's even worse? When they just say "picture"
"What picture are you going to see?"
*PAUNCH*
181092 I can dig it, daddyo
though I'll be the first to admit that I tend to sometimes use old timey phrases just to make fun of the new-age drivel that people say. All I can truly hope for, though, is for people to realize that speaking in acronyms is not now, nor will it ever be "cool". It makes you look like an idiot, and unfortunately Twilight Sparkle from the show is guilty of this little faux pas 
if she wasn't so adorably nerdy and closet-insane that would be enough to make her not my favorite anymore 