Re: Conlangcon Boston today!

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:05:57PM -0500, Ian Maxwell wrote:
> bnathyuw wrote:
> >naive question this, but don't most conlangers have
> >mobile phones ? :->
>
> I used to be anti-cellphone, but I'm all right now....
>
> The thing is, as far as I can tell, it's not cell phones that are
> annoying, it's annoying people with cell phones that are annoying. As a
> former anti-cellphone type, I've now found that they serve my minimal
> phone usage (i.e., coordinating) far better than landline phones do. At
> this point no one ever calls me on the house phone anymore, which means
> I don't have to pick it up!
[snip]

So basically you're saying
        Cellphones don't annoy people; people annoy people.
:-P
Or, as my odd sense of humour would respond:
        Cellphones don't annoy people; the beeping does.

(Context: recently I added a line to my sigs file which reads "Guns don't
kill people; bullets do.")


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