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Why do people describe things I learned in school in 1973 as being "archaic"?

How can something as recent as 1973 be archaic?

Posted - March 28, 2020
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  • 44620
    I wouldn't since I went to school in the 50s and 60s.
      March 28, 2020 2:49 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    That's because of your age. I was born in 1962 so I was 11 in 1973.
      March 28, 2020 2:50 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    Correct...you may think some of things I learned are archaic. LOL
      March 28, 2020 2:58 PM MDT
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  • Tell 'em you're not archaic, you're vintage.  They'll understand one day.
      March 28, 2020 3:23 PM MDT
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  • 10643
    Much of what I learned in '73 is still the same today - how to play chess, what the inside of a school toilet bowl looks like from close up...
      March 28, 2020 4:37 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    I'm more interested in how high the toilet cistern is and whether it is visible above the height of the door or not.
      March 30, 2020 9:08 AM MDT
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  • 5391

    Did you learn penmanship? Use a pencil? A typewriter? Do your math on scrap paper? 

    Hello, archaic

      March 28, 2020 5:01 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    Maths has an "s" on the end. Why does everybody miss it out these days? Don't tell me that's archaic as well.
      March 30, 2020 9:09 AM MDT
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  • 182
    You probably viewed the world, and everything that fell within your consciousness, through the eyes of a white, straight male. Tsk, tsk. You would have inevitably received an entirely skewed and improper impression of things. A great many books have been written, and a variety of invasive surgical and psychiatric treatments made available, to help you understand where you went wrong in your thinking and perception. You may also want to obtain a new and improved, thoroughly douched, socially corrected and disinfected, dictionary. Just because certain words have been in common use for decades if not centuries, that doesn't award them any weight of approval, or mean they necessarily meet the needs of today's socially awake, perpetually adjusting, correcting and proscribing, way of life. Re-education is part of the life curriculum now, any resistance or attempt to hold on to who you really are, and your name will be placed on 'The List'.
          
      August 19, 2020 12:56 PM MDT
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