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Jan. 2nd, 2008 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackFrom http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1471, suggests that this should be a new form of “-punk”. Instead of Steampunk or Cyberpunk, we have some new kind of punk for 1970’s futurist big iron mainframe-style computer tech, with tape drives, blinky-light interfaces, and toggle-switch inputs.
The thing is, I'm just imagining future etymologists looking at the adjective punk[1], and saying "Hold on, so first there were all these people in green spiky hair and paperclip-piercings, and then all of a sudden they started wearing dodgy white jumpsuits and making retrotech? WTF?"
[1] What specific linguistic phenomenon do I mean? The "-holic" one, I guess.
The thing is, I'm just imagining future etymologists looking at the adjective punk[1], and saying "Hold on, so first there were all these people in green spiky hair and paperclip-piercings, and then all of a sudden they started wearing dodgy white jumpsuits and making retrotech? WTF?"
[1] What specific linguistic phenomenon do I mean? The "-holic" one, I guess.