>mfw they are called movies because they are moving images

>>83738903
Are... are you retarded?

They are called kino because...

but then why do we call flicks flicks, joints joints and kino kino?

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>mfw they yell CUT because they used to have to cut the frames manually

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>>83739639
Flicks comes from "flicker" or "flicker-show".
Joint is a meme Spike Lee came up with. I honestly have no idea what he means by it.
Kino is a /v/eddit meme, which comes from the German word for Cinema or Movie Theater.

i prefer to call them motion pictures

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>>83740301
I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE CALLED MR MAN

no, they are a sequence of images.
Each image has a slight deviation from the image before it

>>83739634
....of autism

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>mfw NEWS is called news because it's an acronym for "Notable Events, Weather, and Sports"

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>>83740570
I SEE IN COLOR NOW

>>83740570
It is called NEWs because it tells you what is new

>>83740613
Why not just call it The New then

>>83740645
Because there is more than one new being given in the news

>>83740570
No it's:

NORTH
EAST
WEST
SOUTH.

Information from all directions, thus NEWS.

>>83740679
New is plural for new. Why do you think people never ask you "Hey what's news with you"

>>83740700
new is an adjective, news is the plural noun version of that adjective

t. linguistics professor

>>83740694
>he only thinks in 2 dimensions.
What about up and down, smartass? They report what's going on under water and in space too.

>>83739860

every thread has its autismo that doest get the joke and explains it all literally.

here's ours.

>>83740570
I hate it when people think that "backronyms" are valid.

They're called movies to differentiate them from talkies

Once it was all talkies, they got rid of the obsolete term and went back to using movies for everything

>>83740721
>t. linguistics professor
That's actually a really funny joke.

>>83740721
you're a faggot
t. theoretical physicist

It's called gold because the sport is for Gents Only, Ladies Forbidden

>TFW m&ms stand for mars and murries And were made for the army

>>83740812
>american soldiers needed candy to convince them to save europe

>>83740721
This is the correct answer and everyone of you deep colon explorers can't appreciate it.

>>83740878
It would've been better in the long run if we hadn't

The plural of pizza is pizze, not pizzas

>>83741047
>The plural of pizza is pizze, not pizzas
Italians don't get to make the rules. The Turks invented pizzas

>>83738903
>IMG_6312.png
kys

>>83740794
>It's called gold because the sport is for Gents Only, Ladies Forbidden
Since when was gold a sport? I thought it was a metal

>>83741205
He's probably jewish

>>83740721
>new is an adjective, news is the plural noun version of that adjective
Wrong.
Newz is the plural noun version of the adjective.
Noose is the loop used to execute someone by hanging
t. phonetician

>>83739634

The word cinematography is the joining of the two greek words 'kinema' (movement) and 'graphein' (to write/to paint).

So kino movies basically focus more on the execution (kinema) rather than the appearance (graphein).

They are called KANGZ because..

>>83738903
Not many people know this, but /tv/ doesn't stand for "television," it stands for "transvestites".

>>83738903
holy fuck

mind_explode.gif

>>83739602
but he's right, you fucking idiot.
When they introduced audio dialogue they called them 'talkies'.

>>83741830
>>83738903
what about tendies?

What am I "tending" to?

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>>83741984
I'm tending to you, sweetie

>>83739860
Kino is from Vernor Vinge's books you uncultured swine.

>>83741430
Clearly a superior term passed down to us from Odin himself

>>83739639
No one calls it kino

>>83741830
We know he's right. He's retarded for only just realizing this.

>>83740694
This is bait right? anon, right? bait? please?

>>83740878
>save europe

Worked out really well, didn't it?