Re: Can you regulate Quartz




Frank Adam wrote:

Engineer wrote:

Engineer wrote:

Do you refer to "dialing" a phone that has buttons instead of a dial?

I "call" people, though some older people may dial a number.

Sample sentence (fill in the blanks): "My phone is broken.
I can recieve calls and I get a ____ tone, but nothing happens
when I ____ a number to call out."

Refusal to answer a simple question noted.

You asked me a specific question, "do i dial a phone" ?

Didn't you momma teach you not to write things that aren't true?

I asked the specific question "Do you refer to 'dialing' a phone
that has buttons instead of a dial?" -- not the same thing.

The answer is an emphatic "no".

And so, again I ask you to fill in the blanks and thus reveal
what words you would use to express the following:

"My phone is broken. I can recieve calls and I get
a ____ tone, but nothing happens when I ____ a number
to call out."

It's a simple question. Why can't you answer?

Bad grammar is bad grammar, no matter how
appropriate you might think it to be applied here.
You may dial a phone, you may get a dial tone, i call people on the
phone and i even "talk" to you here.

Red herring and obfuscation. I didn't ask what you do on a phone.
I asked you what you call that subset of what you do on a phone that
consists of your stubby little digits mashing down keys with numbers
on them. I asked what you call that noise you hear before you mash
down the keys. Try to pay attention to the actual question this
time, OK?


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