Butt-dialing (was Sleep-texting)

[Ronald Butters]

Ah, well, redundancy abounds in human language, and in this case it seems clear enough that the speaker wanted to stress that his calling had not been intentional.

On Jan 6, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

> My son talked about how he "accidentally butt-dialed" someone, which prompted me to speculate about the skills required for butt-dialing someone on purpose.
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> Neal
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> On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:16 AM, "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>> Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
>> Subject:      Re: Sleep-text, texter
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>> Apparently sometimes more thoughtful than
>> butt-phoning, which (I assume) only dials random numbers.
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>> Joel
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