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Cell Phones and why they annoy me
May 31, 2007 |
An interesting article I got, here is the detail:
Note I said cell phones and not “cells”. Their very name is number one on the list of things about them that make me nuts. Most people don’t see a problem with sentences like, “Do you have a cell?” The word cell is defined as:
1. a small room, as in a convent or prison.
2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole.
3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the Communist party.
4. Biology. a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane and, in plants, a cell wall; the basic structural unit of all organisms.
5. Entomology. one of the areas into which the wing of an insect is divided by the veins.
6. Electricity. Also called battery, electric cell, electrochemical cell, galvanic cell, voltaic cell. a device that generates electrical energy from chemical energy, usually consisting of two different conducting substances placed in an electrolyte.
When asked the question above, my usual response is to go with definition 4 and say, “Yes, I have MILLIONS” of them.” If you want to know if I have a phone, then use the word “Phone”. It’s not THAT much extra effort, is it?
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