Russian Cellphone jargon

[Ingunn Lunde]

For those interested in the various nominations of the cell phone in  
Russian (mobil'nyi/sotovyi (telefon), mobil'nik, mobilka, sotik,  
sotka, truba, trubka, sotovik, mobil', pelefon, khendi, mobila,  
mobil, mobil'ka, mobla, moblo, mobl, moblik) and their dissemination  
all over the Russian-speaking world, see V.I. Belikov's recent  
article: "Russkoe iazykovoe prostranstvo i tekhnicheskii progress",  
in Russkii iazyk segodnia, vyp. 4, M. 2006, pp. 62-76.

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Ingunn Lunde
University of Bergen
http://www.hf.uib.no/i/russisk/landslide/ingunn.html


Am 16.01.2007 um 12:38 Uhr schrieb Josh Wilson:

> I don't believe anyone has mentioned another variant: sotovyi telefon
> (сотовый телефон).
>
> Landline is "gorodskoi telefon."
>
> Truba is interesting because it can be applied to a sotovyi telefon  
> or to
> the handset of a gorodskoi telefon




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