War Of The Words

@very-rusty said
My Brother-In-Law has never used a computer, doesn't even like a cell phone just lan line. One of the few left!

-VR

@very-rusty said
My Brother-In-Law has never used a computer, doesn't even like a cell phone just lan line. One of the few left!

-VR

@great-big-stees said
We still have a land line.

@torunn said
I had mine until a few months ago but it was hardly ever in use except to open the front door to the house.

@great-big-stees said
Wow a magical land line. I use a key to open our door.

@torunn said
Our front door to the house is kept locked, and we open with a key or a code. Guests without the code call my apartment and my phone rings, and I open with a button on the phone. 🙂

@great-big-stees said
I knew that. I was just being me. 🙂

@torunn said
Oh dear, so silly of me. 🙂

@torunn said
One of the very few - how does he manage, one wonders?

@leur said
"Another wise ass know it all" here (see Honor Roll thread, page 18, post 13...

Let us elevate the furshlugginer GF, huh?

From Time Magazine:

Americans and Brits have argued over the English language for centuries, and not just about an extra u here and there. But according to Peter Martin, author of the Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language, "they have always been able to understand their insults of one another."

@ponderable said
Very interesting the way the thread took from a discussion of British and American English to the use of computers, land lines and cell phones.

A propos cell phone. we use the neologism "Handy" in Germany LOL

Same in most forums though, if you just read the thread post and then jump straight to the last post it’s quite surreal. Hang on I might have the bare bones of a new guessing game.

We still have a landline, complete with answering machine and functioning fax. I still have a dumb cellphone, with 10 keys and no touchscreen or email. But you can't say we've avoided technology altogether - between two people we have 13 functioning computers in active use (not counting things with microprocessors like TVs or dishwashers). Of the 13, 5 are desktops, 3 are laptops, 4 tablets, 1 smartphone.
And we're both retired and not running any kind of business. Bizarre, isn't it?

@kewpie said
We still have a landline, complete with answering machine and functioning fax. I still have a dumb cellphone, with 10 keys and no touchscreen or email. But you can't say we've avoided technology altogether - between two people we have 13 functioning computers in active use (not counting things with microprocessors like TVs or dishwashers). Of the 13, 5 are desktops, 3 are ...[text shortened]... ets, 1 smartphone.
And we're both retired and not running any kind of business. Bizarre, isn't it?

@kewpie said
We still have a landline, complete with answering machine and functioning fax. I still have a dumb cellphone, with 10 keys and no touchscreen or email. But you can't say we've avoided technology altogether - between two people we have 13 functioning computers in active use (not counting things with microprocessors like TVs or dishwashers). Of the 13, 5 are desktops, 3 are ...[text shortened]... ets, 1 smartphone.
And we're both retired and not running any kind of business. Bizarre, isn't it?