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

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This guy phones.

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Germans call it a handy.

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In Germany, they employ the whole person, not just the hand!

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It's worse than that, 'nomenclature' isn't just a fancy synonym of "name". It refers to a system for naming things, rather than a quality or characteristic of the thing being named. So, even if they'd written 'their' it wouldn't really make sense (and 'they're' is just gibberish).

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I always liked mobile it works for everything you do on the go

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Is it worse that I still call them "telephones"?

p.s. I am British, which gives me some allowance for using strange, historical words.

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I always liked the German "Handy" ... cos it's great for porn.

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I called mine Marvin.

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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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I call mine Left Hand Free since half the time i am using it one handed.

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My favorite thing about smartphones is that the "call" icon is an old-school telephone handset. I'll bet younger people have never thought about what that thing is even supposed to be. My second-favorite is the gear icon for "settings" - like, what the fuck does a gear ring have to do with a list of options you can select? That isn't even remotely close to what gears are used for in real-world mechanical devices.

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I have yet to be actually paid for any hand job, in the USA or Germany.

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I'll bet younger people have never thought about what that thing is even supposed to be.

Oh cmon.

Yes, this supposedly (according to some meme) happened with the save symbol, because a floppy is actually something a lot of today's people have never seen or touched.

That sort of a handset for a telephone though? Do you think they haven't seen shows or movies? Never saw a playset with a very classic model plastic phones?

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Hand Terminals imply you no longer have local storage, which wouldn't describe smarphones today.

Also, I hate the idea of a "Hand Terminal" where everything is on the cloud. I mean...

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Eros Incident, comms all dead. Screen doesnt even turn on.

With actual phones, they could've used something like Briar!
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Even my two year old can recognize a telephone handset, pick it up and hold it to her ear while saying "Hewwo?"

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Since you are British, international law allows you to call it a "wireless" if you like.

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I enjoy my China, and also my China, and how could I forgot my China...

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Thank you, and I shall do so. Very much appreciated

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It's hard for people to understand, but there was a time from the late 70's to early 80's where after a screen "transition" whatever came up next on the screen was called a "new page".

So if you were playing Intellivision AD&D going in a dungeon from the overworld was a "new page". Or playing Karate Champ.... going from the Title Screen to the Fight Mechanics part was thought of as a "new page".

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One time I heard a colleague called the settings/gear icon in Windows a flower. I've also heard somebody refer to the PuTTY icon as "the two penguins"