Re: CHAT: postcodes

Christophe écrivit:

>My friend knows an awful lot of phone numbers. I've nearly never seen him
>checking his notebook to find a phone number. And yet he's unable to
>cite them,
>unless he actually composes them on the phone. It looks like what he remembers
>is the hand movement done to compose the phone number, not the number itself!
En anglais, composer = dial, even though the dial is, for the most
part save folks in South Dakota (?), obsolete.

I do the same thing with familiar numbers. I can dial my father's
number in the dark. When asked what the number is, I need to dial in
space or on a table surface before I can generate the number verbally.

Kou

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