A Thickly-Accented, Incomprehensible 20th-Century Dialect

The other night, I was trying to help Ian with his Latin homework, for his online Latin class which was to take place the next day. I got a bit impatient with Ian's rather persistent lack of attention to the subject, and his deliberate distractions and antics, and I found myself saying, more than once, "Tune in!"

Finally, Ian forced me to confront how 20th-century I really am, lo these more than eleven years into the new millenium, and how quaintly irrelevant and undecipherable my terminology has become:

"I don't even know what 'Tune in' means!"

Of course, it helps that we don't have a TV. But still, I was surprised. He really didn't know what "Tune in" meant?

"'Never heard it before."

(January 9, 2012)