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...ways in which we’ve attached verbs to technology. When the car was invented, ‘driving’ was borrowed from the owners of carriages, and to travel on an airplane was naturally termed ‘flying.’ ‘Phone?? and ‘telephone,’ long-standing fixtures of language both, appear to be falling out of favor as verbs despite Who Wants to be a Millionaire‘s allowance that participants can ‘phone a friend.’ Instead, we call...
...While there must be limits to making hapless justifications for male reticence, that doesn’t mean there are no alternate reasons for your cell phone??s conspicuous silence...
...then I got a cell phone. Initially, its presence was novel and uncomfortable, like a new piercing. I kept opening it and clumsily punching buttons. “What do those bars next to the cross mean?” I asked a roommate, showing him my cell phone??s screen, which was glowing a vaguely radioactive green. “There. That, like, Golgotha meter...
...student writing under the pseudonym Chris Farley grumbled that the only signs of life on a typical Harvard weekend were a “Centrex phone?? that led the average 80s party-searcher to a House party, only to find “five strangers desperately trying to have fun on tomato juice and Perrier...
...Boston resident reported that between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., she left her cellular phone behind a counter while working in the Galleria Mall. She said she believes an unknown party swapped her phone??s chip...