I worked in telecom back in the 80's and the acronymn POTS was always
used...plain old telephone service requiring bell to come out and install a
telephone jack in your home or business and then connect it to a BOX (local to
your neighbor) and then make connect to Central Office...That explaination
always worked well for training no -technical customers
Deborah Riffin
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-Original Message-
From: Scott Prentice s...@leximation.com
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Fri, Feb 4, 2011 8:52 am
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Keep in mind your underlying reason for trying to differentiate between
different types of phone systems. Just because a phone is wired doesn't mean
that it's POTS .. an IP-based phone system may look just like a POTS system,
but technically, isn't (is VOIP considered a landline .. I dunno). Also, you
might have a mobile phone that's not really cellular, but radio or other form
of wireless. I'm no expert in these things, but the line isn't always clear,
especially to the average reader.
I'd be careful in even bothering to differentiate between the various systems
unless it is really crucial to what you're documenting. No matter how you
describe it, unless you go into great technical detail, it's likely to be
confusing or wrong for some situations.
Cheers,
...scott
Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote:
What is wrong with landline? Is it bad that it is easily
understandable? Should you really try to find a word that no none
understands without a Masters degree in English?
It seems to me that there is an ongoing snob for Latin-based words,
acronyms (Latin) and abbreviations (Latin) (or shorts (Humanly
understandable language)) in England and the US, which means that you
have to constantly refer to a dead language. How much time, effort and
ink do you think is spent on explaining English words to the
English-speaking?
Let's use the simple words when we can.
KISS
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
2011/2/4 Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) syed.hos...@aeris.net:
We mostly use wireless and wireline to distinguish the two (my company
is in the wireless data business for cellular).
On fewer occasions, simply landline and POTS.
Depends on the audience. :)
Z
-Original Message-
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Posada
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:03 PM
To: Alan T Litchfield
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC
WR-ALC/ENGLTB
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for landline
Maybe nothing, just exploring alternative...look like there really aren't
any...thanks anyway
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Alan T Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz
wrote:
Telephone?
What's wrong with landline?
Alan
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