Or those Brits who refer to their cellular mobile telephone as a 'mobile'.
That's perfectly acceptable, it's describing the function not the method. I may not have a cellular mobile telephone, and you have no method of reading my mind and working that out. And if you can read my mind, stop it!
Its like telling somebody to tie up their shoes instead of put on their shoes, or wash the settee instead of clean the settee. It presupposes a probably incorrect mechanism and specifies a probably inappropriate method.
Let's add some stuff to the list. How about people who call products not by their name but the brand by which they were made popular?
I use a Mercedes to clean my carpet, and an Electrolux to clean my clothes ;) I would never let a Hoover anywhere near my house, they're crap, the only one I ever bought fell apart after a coupld of weeks.
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Its like telling somebody to tie up their shoes instead of put on their shoes, or wash the settee instead of clean the settee. It presupposes a probably incorrect mechanism and specifies a probably inappropriate method. I use a Mercedes to clean my carpet, and an Electrolux to clean my clothes ;) I would never let a Hoover anywhere near my house, they're crap, the only one I ever bought fell apart after a coupld of weeks.
Re-read my post ... it was a [n absurd] joke ... did no one here click the link?
One man's mobile phone is another man's home.
Is that that wooden man from Tekken in the back of that mobile home? How odd...:D