When referring to modern technology, specifically video recording, why do most people keep using archaic terms like “filming” and “videotaping”? I am constantly hearing people recording on YouTube making comments like “You’re being filmed” or this is on videotape”. We know that anyone under 30 on a smartphone has probably never used videotape, and surely has never used an actual film motion picture camera. Where are they using these out of date terms?
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The terms are still idiomatic even if the technology is archaic. We still use terms like “carbon copy” and most people under 25 probably don’t even know what that is.
The real reason is that the language hasn’t developed a suitable replacement. “Recorded” is ambiguous. “Video recorded” is awkward. Until there’s a new word, “filmed” will be sticking around. But there’s no real need for a new word when “filmed” is universally understood.
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