Re: Most developed conlang

In a message dated 4/20/2007 9:35:32 PM Central Daylight Time, hmiller@IO.COM
writes:


> So although it's possible to use the word "speaker" for
> someone who's speaking at the moment, or by extension, someone who has a
> job connected with speaking, it's also a device which produces sound
> waves from electrical impulses. When that kind of speaker makes a sound,
> we don't say that it's "speaking". It must have got its name from being
> used in telephones (which conventionally transmit voice messages), but
> the connection with "speaking" has become tenuous.
>
More likely, I think, is that it was shortened from "loudspeaker".

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