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#151676 - 12/08/05 02:49 AM pertaining to phone
Logwood enthusiast Registered: 07/28/05 Posts: 270 Loc: Israel	Is there a word for that? it can't be phony or phonetic, and "phonial" doesn't yield any definition. Maybe I'm once again overlooking the obvious?
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#151677 - 12/08/05 02:53 AM Re: pertaining to phone
Marianna addict Registered: 01/09/01 Posts: 427 Loc: Spain	Telephonic? Just like phonic, but at a distance...
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#151678 - 12/08/05 02:59 AM Re: pertaining to phone
Logwood enthusiast Registered: 07/28/05 Posts: 270 Loc: Israel	That makes perfect sense, since I forgot that "phone" (as a noun) is in fact slang. Overlooking the obvious it is. Thanks.
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#151679 - 12/08/05 03:22 AM Re: pertaining to phone
sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui	Quote: That makes perfect sense, since I forgot that "phone" (as a noun) is in fact slang. Thanks. Says who? _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#151680 - 12/08/05 04:26 AM Re: pertaining to phone
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	> says? fwiw OED2 says this: colloq. Also 'phone. [Abbrev. telephone: telephone v.] a. trans. = telephone: telephone v. 1c. Also const. up and with advbs. b. intr. = telephone: telephone v. 1a. Freq. with particle as phrasal verb or with advbs. c. trans. Const. in. = telephone: telephone v. 1b. The first citation is from 1889; Scott Fitzgerald uses it in The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Eugene O'Neill in act 3 of Great God Brown in 1926 - so I guess whilst it's certainly colloquial it has good grandparents by now!
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#151681 - 12/08/05 04:38 AM Re: pertaining to phone
sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/20/03 Posts: 3230 Loc: Te Ika a Maui	Isn't there a difference between slang and colloquial, but? _________________________ noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html
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#151682 - 12/08/05 04:48 AM Re: pertaining to phone
maverick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/15/00 Posts: 4757	Yes, I am basically in agreement - t'aint slang, it's a colloquialism that has quite a (heh) lineage by now. colloquial: 1. Of or pertaining to colloquy; conversational. 2. spec. Of words, phrases, etc.: Belonging to common speech; characteristic of or proper to ordinary conversation, as distinguished from formal or elevated language. (The usual sense.)
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#151683 - 12/08/05 06:35 AM Re: pertaining to phone
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	Looks like another thread where we might end up a cordless. Wire you guys doing this? _________________________ TEd
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#151684 - 12/08/05 07:11 AM Re: pertaining to phone
Homo Loquens enthusiast Registered: 09/03/05 Posts: 203	Quote: Looks like another thread where we might end up a cordless. Wire you guys doing this? They've got hang ups. Edited by Homo Loquens (12/08/05 07:19 AM) _________________________ 'A man who knows everything and who never dies.' --Voltaire of the Comte de Saint-Germain.
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#151685 - 12/08/05 07:14 AM Re: pertaining to phone
Homo Loquens enthusiast Registered: 09/03/05 Posts: 203	Quote: That makes perfect sense, since I forgot that "phone" (as a noun) is in fact slang. Overlooking the obvious it is. If phone as a noun is slang, then surely phone as a verb is too? Edited by Homo Loquens (12/08/05 07:20 AM) _________________________ 'A man who knows everything and who never dies.' --Voltaire of the Comte de Saint-Germain.
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