(keitai-l) Re: Mobile phone in the vernacular

From: Mika Tuupola <tuupola_at_appelsiini.net>
Date: 03/19/01
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10103190052390.7632-100000@aurinko.taivas.com>
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Daniel Scuka wrote:

> It was Andrea, I think, who told me that Germans refer to their mobile
> phones as "handy." Is that correct? What do other Europeans call their
> mobile phone?

	Finnish word (one of the many, but AFAIK the most used) for
	mobile phone in spoken language is "kännykkä" which comes
	from the word "käsi" = "hand" in english. Official, grammatically
	correct word would be "matkapuhelin". 

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Mika Tuupola                      http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/


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Received on Mon Mar 19 00:56:06 2001