Translation and analysis of words by ChatGPT artificial intelligence
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- usage examples (several phrases with translation)
- etymology
What (who) is retronym - definition
![motor car]]. The same topics today would most likely be talked about with the terms ''[[hand truck]]s'' and ''[[railroad car]]s''. Those terms existed in 1914 as well, but they were not required for clarity, as they would be today.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Trucks and cars in Popular Mechanics 1914 v22 n5 p699.png?width=200 "motor car]]. The same topics today would most likely be talked about with the terms ''[[hand truck]]s'' and ''[[railroad car]]s''. Those terms existed in 1914 as well, but they were not required for clarity, as they would be today.")
Acoustic guitar is a retronym for what used to be known simply as a guitar.
Wikipedia
A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that helps differentiate the original form/version from a more recent one. It is thus a word or phrase created to avoid confusion between older and newer types, whereas previously (before there were more than one type) no clarification was required.
Advances in technology are often responsible for the coinage of retronyms. For example, the term "acoustic guitar" was coined with the advent of electric guitars; analog watches were renamed to distinguish them from digital watches once the latter were invented; and "push bike" was created to distinguish from motorbikes and motorized bicycles; finally "feature phones" were also coined behind smartphones.
