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person to transmit messages, and ones more caring in fact since he was
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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Dennis Baron [mailto:debaron@illinois.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 10 March 2009 1:25
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Baron Dennis; language
language policy; ads ads; wpa<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> March 10: The telephone
is 133 years old today. Call me.</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>There's a new post on t<a href="http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage">he
Web of Language:</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10: The telephone is 133 years old today. Call me.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=3 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>133 years ago, on March 10, 1876,
Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated that the human voice could be transmitted
electrically across wires by shouting the famous words, "Mr. Watson – Come
here – I want to see you," into the telephone that he had constructed. As <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bell</st1:place></st1:City> wrote in his lab
notebook, "To my delight he came and declared that he had heard and
understood what I said." To prove it, Watson repeated <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Bell</st1:place></st1:City>'s words verbatim.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Bell</span></font></st1:place></st1:City> had to
shout into the receiver because the electrical signal lost strength as it
traveled from one room to the next. The sound quality was poor as well. When
the two men changed places and Watson spoke into the device, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Bell</st1:City></st1:place> couldn't understand the passage that
Watson read from a book:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I could not make out the sense, but an occasional word
here and there was quite distinct. I made out "to" and
"out" and "further", and finally the sentence "Mr.
Bell Do you understand what I say? DO-YOU-un-der-stand-what-I-say" came
quite clearly and intelligibly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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