ArWeGod
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:43 pm
Post subject: Re: US cell phones |
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"TakenEvent" <lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | They are often called portables from what I hear. You won't get much
traction telling people not to cut compounds to the quick for the
quick.
It's fine with some nouns, just not the ones that sound stupid when
cut. |
"Cell" is a bad pet name for a phone, I will admit. I will now begin a
campaign, because of your objection Mr. "TakenEvent"
<lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net>
I will now call my cellular phone, land line phone, mobile phone, and
Invisible Pink Unicorn (Bless Her Holy Horn) phone, simply "my phone".
When you call me, as you know you want to, I will answer on "my phone".
When I make a call - it will most likely be from "my phone". If you
"star sixty nine" me, you will call me on "my phone". I promise to never
refer to my phones as anything other than "my phone".
Except for the Bat Phone, but we don't need to go into that here....
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ArWeOnePhoney
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Bill Bonde ('by a commodi
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| Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:54 am
Post subject: Re: US cell phones |
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ArWeGod wrote:
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"TakenEvent" <lightbulbsnickety@chartermi.net> wrote in message
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"R H Draney" <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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TakenEvent filted:
Land line -- good.
Cell -- oversimplified just to be different, even elitist, and
tweaked
just
to tweak. And it's becoming more common. Can't speak like ma +
pa. Is
it
premature to start the backlash against text message-speak?
There've
been
complaints, sure. I'm all for the evolution of language, but at
what
point
do the returns start to diminish?
When a phone becomes a "cell." It's a shortcut that should elicit
cynical
murmuring, or a sharp blow to the back of the head. It's a phone,
a cell
phone, even a mobile phone, though not for much longer. Even
Amazon.com
is
offering "Cell Phones & Service."
Are jump ropes called "jumps?" Are portable phones called
"portables?"
Not
really, even though some may do so when in a hurry.
I'm about to put my lunch in the microwave and slip in a
video...wonder if
that'll generate more heat here or wherever TakenEvent is....r
To be completely honest, I never cared for the usage of "video" to
refer to
a videocassette which contains a movie. I simply call it a movie.
For
example, I prefer "I'll put the movie in while you're making the
popcorn" to
"I'll put the video in..." I just don't like the way it sounds. When
I'm
in a good mood, I'll even accept "I'll put the tape in..." Unless, of
course, it's a DVD.
"Put the tape in"? 
That is really funny! When he said put in a video I, of course - like
everyone else in the known Multiverse, knew he meant a DVD. Nobody
thought of video tape! Like, since 1000 years ago, when it was the 20th
Century, in the before time. <cue Conan O'Brien's "In the year 2000"
song>! "Gas was $1.70!" Ooohhhhhh....
It's funny how he thought he'd have to give that gag up post 2000 but it |
is actually funnier now.
| Quote: | Video = DVD, there is nothing else. Scan you neighborhood on trash day,
if you don't have one; they're like old sofas. 
What is the emoticon for a sad head shaking in disbelief?
There are a lot of advantages to tape, VHS and audio cassette, mostly |
involving how easy it is to stop the tape and put in another one being
able to return the first to the same spot without having to go through
the clumsy DVD or CD interface, without even having to remember where
you were. Of course this could be corrected if DVD and CD players had a
memory for where you were in each disc back even ten places, even two
places would change everything.
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Had Tolstoy confined himself to war or peace, he could have been
finished in seven hundred and fifty pages. |
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