Re: CHAT: Boston miniconlangcon photos

 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > En réponse à
"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
>
> >
> > (And don't get me started on phone numbers... last
> night I spent half
> > an
> > hour trying to remember my cousin's number, only
> to give up and look it
> > up
> > in my notebook. :-P)
> >
>
> Idem. I know my own phone number (because it has a
> very easy pattern :)) ), my
> work phone number because it has a similar pattern,
> and my parents' number
> because it was mine for 18 years :)) . The rest I
> have to write it down. My
> friend doesn't remember really phone numbers but
> movements on the phone keys.
> He has to make the movement of dialing the phone
> number to actually be able to
> enunciate it.
>
i do that . . . particularly with bank cards and other
pins. the one problem is that telephone keypads are
the opposite way round from computer and
hole-in-the-wall machine keypads, so typing phone
numbers at the computer gets confusing . . .

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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