Hi Group, we're just wondering, in German we call the different types of phone-numbers (Geographic,mobile,national,VoIP...) Rufnummerngassen (phone number alleys ;-) ) Is there an english word for this? -- ----------------------------- Markus Weiler markus_weiler at mailworks.org -----------------------------
On Tuesday 06 March 2018 at 09:05:25, Markus Weiler wrote:> Hi Group, > > we're just wondering, in German we call the different types of phone-numbers > (Geographic,mobile,national,VoIP...) Rufnummerngassen (phone number alleys > ;-) ) > Is there an english word for this?No. It's just another example of German choosing to have a single word for something, where English uses two or more. In English I'd say "number type", but that's just my opinion - others might describe this differently. Just the word "Rufnummer" on its own is another example - "phone number". Antony. -- Was ist braun, liegt ins Gras, und raucht? Ein Kaminchen... Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
On Tuesday 06 March 2018 at 09:05:25, Markus Weiler wrote:> Hi Group, > > we're just wondering, in German we call the different types of > phone-numbers > (Geographic,mobile,national,VoIP...) Rufnummerngassen (phone number > alleys > ;-) ) > Is there an english word for this?No. It's just another example of German choosing to have a single word for something, where English uses two or more. In English I'd say "number type", but that's just my opinion - others might describe this differently. Just the word "Rufnummer" on its own is another example - "phone number". Antony. -- The North American Numbering Plan doesn't distinguish between the "number types." With portability of numbers between mobile and the decreasing number of landlines and the mobility of mobile numbers eliminating geographic identity within the U.S., there's little use for classifying them. --Don
On 6 March 2018 at 09:49, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at asterisk.open.source.it> wrote:> On Tuesday 06 March 2018 at 09:05:25, Markus Weiler wrote: > > > Hi Group, > > > > we're just wondering, in German we call the different types of > phone-numbers > > (Geographic,mobile,national,VoIP...) Rufnummerngassen (phone number > alleys > > ;-) ) > > Is there an english word for this? > > No. > > It's just another example of German choosing to have a single word for > something, where English uses two or more. > > In English I'd say "number type", but that's just my opinion - others might > describe this differently. >What about "Nature of Address" (NOA) ? I like Rufnummerngassen though :-) -Barry> Just the word "Rufnummer" on its own is another example - "phone number". > > > Antony. > > -- > Was ist braun, liegt ins Gras, und raucht? > Ein Kaminchen... > > Please reply to the > list; > please *don't* CC > me. > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: https://community.asterisk. > org/ > > New to Asterisk? Start here: > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20180306/bc491d29/attachment.html>
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:05:25AM +0100, Markus Weiler wrote:> we're just wondering, in German we call the different types of phone-numbers (Geographic,mobile,national,VoIP...) > Rufnummerngassen (phone number alleys ;-) ) > Is there an english word for this?I'd call it something like "breakout type", but a more literal "extension (type) path" might also convey the idea.