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Radio telephone is still a valid term. Technically, that what VHF radios on boats are. Love that we have a "Telephony" license aboard.
Personally, prefer mobile phone for the simple fact that it does not involve arbitrary abbreviation of perfectly useful words.
By the way, what was that crazy stuff y'all were typing? Did not know that so many people here knew pig latin.
[gentle reader...]
That reminds me: in small boat sailing, when cutting off another boat while rounding a mark, one is meant to utter a phrase (which I forget) or words to the effect of "I'm cutting you off." This is in the rule book: words to that effect. There is one sailor who got so tired of uttering the phrase that as he cuts people off rounding the mark, he merely shouted "Words to that effect."
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