Is it just me or ...

[Mark A. Mandel]

Brenda Lester says:

    >>>>>

  What about the phone menus that instruct you to "dial" an extension?

<<<<<

What about them? As far as I'm concerned, that verb long ago lost any
connection with rotary phones, clocks, sundials, or Latin "dialis" 'day
(adjective)' < "dies" 'day'. What would you prefer? "Enter"? "Key" as
in "keypad"?

-- Mark (qui marque son numéro en français)
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]


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