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0 pointswarmjets22213d ago0 comments

I've been reading Dashiell Hammett detective stories from the early 1920s and it seems like cars were almost exclusively referred to colloquially as 'machines' back then.

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tedggh13d ago

Steel machines of hell. That’s how I saw them in an editorial work dating back to the early 1900’s talking about the arrival of cars in the city.

SkiFire1313d ago

Some languages still colloquially refer to cars with the same word used for machine.

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tedggh13d ago

Steel machines of hell. That’s how I saw them in an editorial work dating back to the early 1900’s talking about the arrival of cars in the city.

SkiFire1313d ago

Some languages still colloquially refer to cars with the same word used for machine.

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