Since calling people is about 17th on the list of things people seem to do with them. Pocket comps, just plain comps?
I nominate jeejah.
In Germany they’re called a "handy’
I just call mine “my cell”.
No. I like to let these things evolve organically.
When it’s time for a new name it will arrive.
Newt Gingrich already has priority over you:
Stranger
I don’t trust people who are named after amphibians.
I don’t think the newts were too happy, either.
I’m not sure that ‘Newt’ really qualifies as being a person; more a bundle of inexorable evil in bipedal form wrapped up in a cheap suit.
Stranger
c’mon, let’s call a Newt a Newt: “I don’t trust Newt Gingrinch”.
Why tar poor amphibians with distrust?
That is too equivocal of a statement. It should be something like, “I wouldn’t trust Newt Gingrich with my pet rock, and it is actually a petrified mastodon turd. He would end up doing something nasty with it, or using it in his weekly Hitler-worshiping ritual.”
Stranger
Indeed. Words and names can’t be mandated by fiat (“Gulf of America” aside). As it is, people “dial” their mobile phones when they do call someone, and mobile phones are sorely lacking in actual dials.
People also “dialed” phones with push buttons.
Completely agreed. It’s just another example of the English term for something which no longer “accurately” describes it, but the term hangs in there, because language doesn’t necessarily follow logical patterns of evolution.
Nor does imagery, as the “save” icon on all computer programs indicates.
Can you help me out here? what is the relevance of those two dudes to a discussion of amphibians?
I bet there is an app for that.
I don’t think the suit is cheap. The tie, yes, and the way the knot is tied, of course. And the reptilian amphibian brain under the gray hair. That, in particular, is the trouble.
It’s petrified because it has to hang out with Newt.