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Toaraga

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Has anyone stopped to consider the word "ringtone"? It's the noise (more often than not) played by a phone to indicate to everyone within the vicinity that someone is receiving an incoming call, and phones today tend to come with customizable sounds. Now I have a question: when did a ringtone come to mean full or nearly full songs, not just the melody (or facsimile) but the lyrics as well? If a phone plays a song in place of ringing, shouldn't that be called a "ringtune"?

 

©1984-2007 Toaraga EAM

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Toaraga

Not yet, but it will catch on... mark my words. Ringtone only does that because it's been used so often over the past few years; besides, "ringtone" comes up as a misspelled word in Word and Firefox. :psychotwitch:

 

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Nukora

Testing...ringtone. :o You're right!

 

There are almost no real ringtones around these days. They are all combinations of ringtones. I agree with AA that ringtune doesn't flow quite as well, because of the vowel sound used. But if enough people start using it, we'd get used to it. I think I'll start using it.

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