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		aragot on Jan 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What it’s like living in the coldest town on Earth Dalke, care to explain this one to us non-natives? Sounds funny, is it like "film", "cell" and "watching" should be replaced by "movie", "mobile" and "netflixing"?

gwern on Jan 12, 2015 [–]

You missed 'rang' as well - cellphones don't have bells, they have speakers or other things which are skeuomorphs.

dalke on Jan 12, 2015 | [–]

Yes. And to finish off for aragot, few movie theaters use actual film these days.

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