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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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Telephonic? Just like phonic, but at a distance...
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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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That makes perfect sense, since I forgot that "phone" (as a noun) is in fact slang. Thanks.
Says who?
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> 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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Isn't there a difference between slang and colloquial, but?
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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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Looks like another thread where we might end up a cordless. Wire you guys doing this?
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Looks like another thread where we might end up a cordless. Wire you guys doing this?
They've got hang ups.
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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?
Last edited by Homo Loquens; 12/08/05 12:20 PM.
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