Alright then . That ' s why I said I wouldn ' t have used the word anachronism myself , I don ' t believe the term perfectly applies to either example . I would have used something like as strange . Edit I didn ' t see your ninja edit when I replied . How would it strengthen your position ? Your position is that A quill pen is far more out of place today than a typewriter in a janitor ' s hands would ' ve been in the 1960 s . My position remains that as long as one can be called anachronistic , so can the other . The corollary would obviously be that if one was not anachronistic , neither would the otherBut you argued quite strongly for the Quill pen being an anachronism . <| sep |> If you ' re into classical music ' s a huge collection of information , recordings , sheet music and free complete downloads . Completely legal .