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Lovable Sidekick to [email protected]English • 6 months ago

Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

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Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

Lovable Sidekick to [email protected]English • 6 months ago
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    • @[email protected]
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      Ironically the Brits got this right with “mobiles”. What’s the key characteristic of a cellphone? That it is portable and mobile.

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        • Flying Squid
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          Not if c/fuckcars gets their way.

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      Is the term “Pocket PC” still trademarked? Let’s start calling them that.

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      Maybe since you can do your entire Job on it we can call it a hand Job

      Or perhaps since we have it in our face all day we can call it a facial.

      Or since we watch so much porn on it we can call it a video player.

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        Germans call it a handy.

    • Undearius
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      Portable Handheld Omnidirectional Networking Equipment is also pretty long, we could probably shorten it.

      • @[email protected]
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        This guy phones.

      • darkstar
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        We could make that an acronym!

    • madthumbs
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      PSPC w/ TRC lol

      • @[email protected]
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        🎵Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me…🎵

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      To pull terms from a couple different sci-fi book series I like, we could go for Hand Terminals or Scribs. I like both, the former when I’m being grandiose and the latter when I’m feeling cute.

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        Didn’t we had Personal Digital Assistant before?

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