Here are many of the words and terms we use to talk about telephones and how you should use use them.
3. Vocabulary. Communications on the phone.
| Useful words | Verbs |
|---|---|
| Bad line (mala señal) | to call/ring back (volver a llamar) |
| Break up the line (se ha cortado la línea/la llamada) | To break up (romper) |
| Caller (interlocutor | to cut off (cortar) |
| Collect call (cobro revertido) | to dial (marcar) |
|
Directory (guía telefónica) |
to hang up (colgar) |
| Directory enquiry (información telefónica) | to hold [on] (esperar) |
| Switchboard operator (telefonista) | to hang on (esperar) |
| Busy (ocupado/a) | to put through (pasar la llamada) |
| Message (Mensaje) / texting (Mensaje de texto) | to transfer call (pasar / conectar la llamada) |
| Voicemail (mensaje de voz/buzón de voz) |
to pick up (descolgar) |
| Ringtone (tono de llamada) | to wait (esperar) |
| Engaged (ocupado) | to transfer (pasar) |
Quotation
Who is Alexander Graham Bell? Elisha Gray? Which one of these two men has really "invented" the telephone?
The controversy is still going on, but none of these ingenuous inventors could have imagined that this discovery would be a real revolution in our communications.