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| Nov 9, 2023 at 19:41 | history | edited | Olivier5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2023 at 18:51 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | "End" makes more sense, but what should it be named that is better than 'call'? Conversation? We should find names for things that don't change with changing technology. A music 'album' (collection of songs or pieces) works, but LP, CD, MP3, are doomed to obsolescence. Actually, my 'phone' does lots of things, so it needs a new name now. | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 13:00 | comment | added | Olivier5 | @ScottRowe Thanks. "Hang up" always confuses me, because of the phonetically similar but semantically very different "hang on". | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 11:46 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Because people used to "call on" (visit) others, in person. So telephoning was marketed as a way to call on people by voice. Why do we "hang up" at the end? The phone used to have a cylinder that you held to your ear (the receiver) and it hung on a hook, which disconnected the line. (line?) Why do some people say, "ring off" instead of hang up? Because you used to turn the crank a couple times after hanging up to ring a bell so the Operator knew to disconnect your line. Knowing the history of technology seems important, to me. | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 7:08 | comment | added | Olivier5 | @ScottRowe why is it called a "telephone call"? | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 0:07 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | In recent times the 'everybody' who knows of a particular character, sports figure, song lyric, advertising jingle... is rapidly shrinking, and breaking up in to multiple everybodies. We have lots of icons in computer systems alone that many folks have never seen the original. Do you know why it is called a "telephone call" ? Even fiction is getting more fictional. | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 22:03 | history | edited | Olivier5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2023 at 21:50 | history | edited | Olivier5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2023 at 21:44 | history | answered | Olivier5 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |