DISCLAIMER: The writer of the following should on no account be held responsible for the wasted time of the reader.
When I get bored, I start getting weird revelations about stuff. Yesterday, I got this one about missed calls. Let’s start with definitions. In a telephonic conversation, two parties are involved – the caller who places a call and the receiver for whom the call is intended. When the receiver fails to pick up the call, it is termed as a missed call.
Given this, I think statements like “Give me a missed call.”, “I gave you a missed call.”, etc. are incorrect because the caller can never give a missed call. It is the receiver who misses a call. This brings us to the next question: Then what is the correct way of saying it? Well, I actually thought about it for quite sometime but could not arrive at an answer. May be you should suggest something….
10 Comments
October 9, 2006 at 2:20 pm
hehe…it was dorene wasnt it?
October 10, 2006 at 1:48 am
i hate ppl “giving me missed calls” … :-/ … if u dont have money on ur phone goto a pay phone and call … otherwise send a email…. if you cant do any of these .. then … hmmm … dosomething … but not a “missed call”
October 10, 2006 at 1:48 am
i guess “missed calls” has become a noun (i got no idea abt grammar) .. something like google …
October 10, 2006 at 6:21 am
hmm .. nice toughts u got there …
October 10, 2006 at 1:23 pm
@johnny : Google is more like a verb than a noun. go google
October 10, 2006 at 2:49 pm
@bug : ah yeah …. damn .. i’m bad in grammar! but good in ‘c’ grammar … why cant all these langauges be simple as ‘c’. ah … it wud be too cool if people start speaking in ‘c’
October 11, 2006 at 2:16 pm
@Prestidigitator: Of course, sometimes she does bug me with her missed calls, but this isn’t the result of that. This is the product of boredom.
@Daedalus: Whose thoughts r u talkin’ abt – Johnny’s or mine? If mine, then thanx.
@Johnny: Dude, everybody isn’t like us.. Our wishes will come true only when Bill Gates’ stmt. – The geek shall inherit the earth. – is reality.
October 11, 2006 at 2:54 pm
perhaps…..
x : gimme a call and i’ll miss it
October 11, 2006 at 4:21 pm
@selva : “world domination. fast” – Linus Torvalds.
i prefer this one to billy’s
October 11, 2006 at 4:23 pm
yeah daedalus is kinda crazy nowadays …
“dude my sock truned blue… i think itz the water”