[Ads-l] Generification of "skype lesson" in the context of teaching via videoconference in coronavirus times

[Wilson Gray]

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 8:49 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I hear/see being used is "Zoom meeting [or other appropriate noun]".
> My synagogue and other groups that I follow are using Zoom.
>
> MAM
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:58 PM Chris Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
>
> > I just had an exchange with a musician about taking a musical instrument
> > lesson remotely. We had been discussing what I thought we both referred
> to
> > as "Skype lessons". Once we agreed on a time, he wrote me this:
> >
> > """"
> > By the way, just so you know I used Facebook Messenger recently for a
> skype
> > lesson and it worked pretty well. We'll try Skype and if it gives us
> issues
> > we can always switch to Facebook.
> > """"
> >
> > This is an educated and well-travelled native speaker of American English
> > from, and living in, Western North Carolina. I don't know his age, but
> I'd
> > guess, late thirties or forties.
> >
> > I think we'll see this more in this subset of the educational world:
> > individual instrument lessons being taught via the internet.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > --
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