In this universe no one in the UK says "telly" for "television", they just say TV "Mic" is short for "microwave oven" People use it as a verb for reheating something - "mic this for two minutes on high"
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In this universe the fact that calling someone on a telephone is "telling" them and sounds the same as the existing word "tell" is considered mildly confusing and the basis of a great deal of wordplay
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When they first introduced cellular telephony everyone picked up on the term "cell-tels", like "hi-fi" and "wi-fi"
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Someone tried to make a joke about "mobile telephone" being "mo-tel" and sounding the same as the abbreviation for a "motorist hotel" but it didn't take off
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we do live in that world already, and it's called the german language english loanwords. ‘handy’ is the mobile phone. ‘beamer’ is the projector.
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I don't know why I'm imagining this world but I can totally glimpse the nemesis.
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A half-assed acting job would be telled-in People would telbank for political candidates Celebrities would be caught on hotphone
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In early 20th century literature, phone is sometimes spelled 'phone
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Older people regularly put an apostrophe in photo’s to show that it has been shortened from photographs.
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Dude, you have way too much time on your hands
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