Phrases that will surely die out in the next 50 years ?

[glasgowcyclist]

"Have at you!"

Actually, I can't see that ever going out of fashion.

 

[Sharky]

My grandson was overheard asking his dad - "what's a map?", refering to the paper fold out variety.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The BBC

 

[Kajjal]

Let me just check on the internet

 

[LinchPin]

Is it a boy or a girl ?

 

[swee'pea99]

I was at a National Trust property a couple years ago where a room was set up as it was back in the 1920s. There was a phone from the period where you could dial 1 to hear what the gardener's day was like, 2 for the chauffeur's day etc. The 8 year old children I was with understood they had to lift the receiver but were flummoxed by "dial 1". (You put your finger where? And do what?)

Iain Banks touched on this in "Whit", where there is much talk of buttoning numbers.

One of my many 'got it completely wrong' analyses came in the early days of mobiles, when a friend was saying pretty soon everyone would have one. I insisted that the existing system worked fine and mobiles would only ever be a rich man's toy. "One day," he said "our grandchildren will be drop-jawed at our tales of the old days: 'What, you mean to talk to someone you had to be connected to the wall by a wire?'"

 

[glasgowcyclist]

One of my many 'got it completely wrong' analyses came in the early days of mobiles, when a friend was saying pretty soon everyone would have one. I insisted that the existing system worked fine and mobiles would only ever be a rich man's toy. "One day," he said "our grandchildren will be drop-jawed at our tales of the old days: 'What, you mean to talk to someone you had to be connected to the wall by a wire?'"

Wait till you tell them what a party line was!

 

[classic33]

What's wrong with 'thunderbox'.

Bring back "The Crapper"

 

[ClichéGuevara]

One of my many 'got it completely wrong' analyses came in the early days of mobiles, when a friend was saying pretty soon everyone would have one. I insisted that the existing system worked fine and mobiles would only ever be a rich man's toy. "One day," he said "our grandchildren will be drop-jawed at our tales of the old days: 'What, you mean to talk to someone you had to be connected to the wall by a wire?'"

In the very early days of personal mobiles, I got given use of one as part of a call out scheme I didn't want to be on.

The boss was trying to show me how to use it, but smart arse here had used phones for decades, and I found being instructed on it patronising.

I got home, threw the thing on the couch in petulance. Not long after, it rang, so I picked it up and put it to my ear, and was confused when it just continued to ring.

 

[ufkacbln]

'The wireless ' is a good one, but that may just survive.

This could be a different point where the word develops into a new form and survives that way

Wireless to one generation means a large radio, but given a new lease of life when computers went wireless and here we are

 

[Sharky]

One that I hope does die.....

"Sorry mate I didn't see you"

 

[Mrs M]

Please and thank you sadly seem to be dying a death for some.
Instead of a polite request followed by please I all too often hear "I'm needin'" (a good slap perhaps ) followed by whatever it is they want.

 

[cyberknight]

 

[jefmcg]

"I say, you absolute rotter!"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIB1TrPpTE

 

[jefmcg]

given a new lease of life

We could have a whole thread about that, too.

Two I can think of that are getting a second life:

Banter, nearly gone but now back as bants**.

Cuckold, which had to be a to be explained to us at school while studying Shakespeare has now been revived as cuck** by the alt right, replacing fag - which is now apparently too offensive for the purveyors of every other sort of hate speech.

**both these abbreviations are too new for my spellchecker.