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Example sentences for: backwords
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They aren't quite neologisms to account for new technology, like cryogenics or LED . Rather, they come from new technology looking back on old technology--and I've decided to call them backwords.
The frame of mind for hunting backwords need not be disgruntlement.
In the gustatory realm, backwords are common: Fresh-squeezed orange juice and hand-dipped ice cream simply make the point that most juice and ice cream no longer come that way.
Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.
The one risk in collecting backwords is that it does tend to make one feel like an antiquity, possibly deserving of a backword oneself.