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Old 09-15-2009, 02:44 AM   #224
K-Thom
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Or we could call it "ready" (pronounce reed-y, just in case).

A mobile phone is a "handy" in German.
Don't know who ever came up with this term, but it's short, and German people associated the "hand" with it (please don't ask what we used to hold a telephone handset all those years before ...).

I never experienced the look of a native English speaker when a German asked him or her for her "handy"; it didn't seem to have caused any diplomatic conflicts, though. Just keep it in mind before internationalizing "liseuse". You may start a war just by accident!

So I'm whole-heartedly suggesting "ready". Case closed.
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