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[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Taylor514ce

Ou, "tu es un vrai mufle", n'est-ce pas?

certes, si cette conversation se passe en 1950...

personnellement, j'aime beaucoup le mot "mufle" (ainsi que "goujat") et j'essaie de les relancer, mais pour l'instant y a pas grand monde qui me suit... si tu t'y mets aussi, l'usage aura doublé !! c'est pas mal !!

je pourrais te dire comment insulter quelqu'un en 2008, mais je crains que ça ne transgresse un peu les règles du forum... si tu veux vraiment savoir je t'enverrai un pm te traitant de tout plein de noms d'oiseaux !

[NatCh]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

"cell-phone" always confused me anyway : what cells are we talking about ?

At the risk of imposing actual information on this marvelous romp, that "cell" is short for "cellular" and refers to the arrangements of transceiver towers used for the things, which are arranged in a pattern dubbed as "cellular" by some overbrained schmuck that time has lost through the cracks. Evidently, not even Wikipedia knows anymore.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by NatCh

At the risk of imposing actual information on this marvelous romp, that "cell" is short for "cellular" and refers to the arrangements of transceiver towers used for the things, which are arranged in a pattern dubbed as "cellular" by some overbrained schmuck that time has lost through the cracks. Evidently, not even Wikipedia knows anymore.

Well if you look at the pattern of cell arrangements initially devised the pattern looked like a connection of cells as shown in a chemistry diagram as opposed to the original mobile telephone service which was just a repeater arrangement.

Cell tower diagrams also look like honeycombs so maybe they should have been comb networks and combphones.

Dale

[zelda_pinwheel]

or honey phones, for... no, never mind

in french, we call them téléphone mobile or just mobile or [téléphone] portable... no cells involved, stem or otherwise.

[NatCh]

We're getting to the point around here where we're calling them mostly just "cell" (as in "call me on my cell"), but "mobile" has started to gain some ground recently. Perhaps because of smartphone type convergence so that folks think of them more as "mobile devices" than phones.

I'm still hoping for the shoe phone.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

or honey phones, for... no, never mind

in french, we call them téléphone mobile or just mobile or [téléphone] portable... no cells involved, stem or otherwise.

Well, in the US mobile phones were around for a long time before cell-phones. For marketing reasons they used a new name when the new technology was rolled out. After a while when people can no longer remember the old Mobile phones it might be that the old name can be resurrected. The reason for the change was that the older technology limited the number of phones in use and could easily get overloaded in a city.

Dale

[NatCh]

I thought I remembered those being called "radio phones" ....

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by NatCh

I thought I remembered those being called "radio phones" ....

Hmm, maybe you are right. My memory might be off. Actually I do remember radio telephone as the name being used at one point.

Dale

[NatCh]

Doesn't really matter, of course, I just like to occasionally take a measure of how reliable my memory is.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by NatCh

Doesn't really matter, of course, I just like to occasionally take a measure of how reliable my memory is.

Here is an interesting article on this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones

It also illustrates the cell usage.

Dale

[Taylor514ce]

You are missing the point. The goal is not to remember obsolete terminology, but to actively attempt to obsolete current terminology in favor of obscure foreign or entirely fictitious alternatives. A process I hereby annoint with the verb "to mozzle".

[Gentle Reader, please assume this post emblazoned with whatever inane emoticons requisite to render this post amusing rather than offensive, a process henceforth mozzled to "passive emotifaction".]

[zelda_pinwheel]

on my cv :

HOBBIES
reading, trapeze, argentinian tango, mozzling.

[vivaldirules]

If the choice is to either mozzle or to muzzle, I choose mozzling.

[Gentle reader: please note the liberal use of active and inane emotification in this post.]

[Taylor514ce]

NO- no, not emotification, that would be a GeorgeBushism. Emotifaction. Usage:

"That Taylor is the rudest person on the site. He's constantly berating people and going off-topic."

"No, you misunderstand him. You have to emotifactor his posts."

"Oh really? Why, you're right! When I emotifactor his posts, he's not rude, he's freakin' hilarious. I should retroactively give him Karma."

[NatCh]

Ha, ha! Oh! My spleen! Ho, ho!