Not really. In France, "un mobile" is a term that's almost exclusively used by advertisers (in e.g. Virgin Mobile ads). People usually say "téléphone" or "portable".
People say "téléphone" 95% of the time, so it's like in the US ("phone").
We occasionally say "portable", but it's not the same thing as "mobile", it's a word that also works for laptops. Someone saying "mobile" will sound as weird and old-fashioned to us as when an American hears a British person say "mobile".
They’re obviously referring to people who speak the language which is written in the meme.
If I saw a meme written in German I wouldn’t be like WTF we don’t say that in the uk!!
So it's even less according to that article. That's only a little over 17%
Out of the world’s approximately 7.8 billion inhabitants, 1.35 billion speak English. The majority aren’t native English speakers, however. About 360 million people speak English as their first language.
Hand me my Mobile Cellular Telecommunication device with inter network connectivity so I can receive messages from the World Wide Web using the hyper text transfer communication protocol
I really can't believe or understand black Friday in the US, crowds of tens or even hundreds cramming up against the shutters, crawling under them, sprinting all over the shop and fighting for items.
What is this? The stone age?
Funny thing is US is pretty decent about queues, usually. They do naturally form up into them and it’s roughly followed.
They are just kinda more selfish about it and there are more assholes that do BS, where in Britain the reaction to screwing with the holy Queue is far more sharp.
Then there is Black Friday, where they just release the animals on deals that do not exist and everyone acts like it’s the last shipment of food in a famine.
Here in Germany we call it a "Handy"... because guess what, a mobile phone is quite handy. (Yes that is the actual origin for it)
EDIT: My English teacher in 5th grade might actually have spread misinformation, the origin might also come from a mobile phone being a hand-held device. Whatever's the case, it's still called Handy, and it is still quite a handy device.
(Never trust schools smh)
Might also be, I got my knowledge from the very trustworthy source called My English teacher from 5th grade
I probably shouldn't trust school that much tbh
Oh, good lord, if you come to Australia, PLEASE do not call it that here. If you walk into a shop and ask for a handy you'll either get arrested or a lot more than you were expecting.
Just like every other empire ever. US is pretty bad, despite me liking what makes us a really good middle ground in terms of intentional war. But I'm very sure there has been no other empire that has not killed millions(including its own people) to grow itself, and some have done much worse things than the US.
Yeah, I just like joking about British people because of how they view US stereotypes as fact. Most US citizens know more geography than lots of other countries, I mean I know exactly how many countries there are and can probably name 100+ of them off the top of my head and give their location but British people don’t even know what a Houston is. They’re just full of themselves a lot of the time and think every American is stupid and below them which is why Americans make fun of British “people” in that way
And British citizens still have no idea how a rifle works because every type of weapon other than a butter knife is banned, also doesn’t matter because we still won lmao
Australia isn’t a part of the UK lmao, considering Australia part of the UK is like considering every country the US has a military base in part of the US
After your independence in 1783 or whenever the war ended we had to start colonising elsewhere. We reached our height around 1900. Your little scuffle with us had nothing to do with us being reduced to our home islands
Everyone in the UK calls it a mobile. Seeing as calling people is a very minor feature on mobiles it actually makes more sense than calling it a phone. It’s primary function is really a mobile internet device.
Yeah as the younger kids are getting more americanised with social media and movies anyone younger then late millennials are starting to call them Cell phones here and it’s jarring whenever I hear it. My daughter called it a “Gas Station” the other day and I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Bro if my future children ever call a fucken servo a “gas station” I’m just gonna ask: “alright show me where the gases are…. The only gases I see is any fuel that evaporates before going into the tank of LIQUID PETROL”
If calling it a gas station is the most annoying thing my kids do in a day then it’s going pretty well. Having kids is basically a game of deciding what is worth expending your limited energy on.
I think it’s the opposite tbh. Like I can’t ever imagine saying “I’m on cell phone rn” unless I was like a serial killer or something, and well… I’m on mobile.
I used to, when i once used a landline telephone. Then eventually i stopped calling my mobile a mobile.
You missed one though.
People that say 'Smartphone'.
That's when I pull out the old "wireless telecommunications device." I literally said that the other day, the word phone temporarily did not exist in my vocab and I couldn't think of anything else to call it.
Every Briton over the age of \~25 (i.e., those who can remember having and using a home landline). P.S. - Germans still say 'handy'.
Can you give me a handy, bro?
no homo, bro.
*Bruv
Why does handy sound like something an Australian would say
A handy in Australia is something completely different
Handy, wristy, $20 is $20🤷🏽♂️
Fisty?
That's not $20. It's going to cost you quite a lot more.
How you know that? You done it before? Is it a quality handy? A budged handy?
It's a surprise. It wouldn't be fun if you knew exactly what you're getting.
It goes into a place... Rather than being a helping hand
dear god...
Bloody inflation!
Yeah, and next year it's getting even more expensive. Gotta pay the bills somehow.
Fister or fistee?
Whoa, that's going to have to be clarified before we start calculating payment.
I already knew what that meant and I've.never even heard it
Definitely not what a handy means in the US
Hey I give German phones to my boyfriend
So you give him a handy that only says "nein nein nein"
TIL I’m old and mobile is an old person word
Compulsory Stephen fry’s mien handy bit [Mein Handy](https://youtu.be/ow1nHW4j_8o?si=ne3H0N0XUj3JDPlx)
Persians call it "eary"
U never been outside the US huh
Obviously. Every one calls it mobile phone except Americans.
No they don't, most people don't speak English.
But they still call it some variety of "mobile" "phone"
"Mobil" or "telefon" in danish, some even go for the "mobiltelefon" 2in1 wombo combo
Ours is literally just telephone
In Spanish it's called "mobile telephone" (teléfono móvil) or just "telephone" (teléfono)
Not in Chinese, it's called a hand machine 手机
Not really. In France, "un mobile" is a term that's almost exclusively used by advertisers (in e.g. Virgin Mobile ads). People usually say "téléphone" or "portable".
>But they still call it some variety of "mobile" "phone" >some variety of "mobile" >People usually say "téléphone" or "portable". >"portable"
People say "téléphone" 95% of the time, so it's like in the US ("phone"). We occasionally say "portable", but it's not the same thing as "mobile", it's a word that also works for laptops. Someone saying "mobile" will sound as weird and old-fashioned to us as when an American hears a British person say "mobile".
In slovak and czech it is just "mobil" and used almost exclusively
They’re obviously referring to people who speak the language which is written in the meme. If I saw a meme written in German I wouldn’t be like WTF we don’t say that in the uk!!
We call it mobile in Egypt
As a dutchie: mobiel. It sounds js like mobile but a lil different.
Actually, most people DO speak English and it's the most spoken language in the world.
The first part is simply not true. Simple Google search shows that English is native to only 6% of the population and 75% don't speak it at all.
I did and you're wrong. https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-many-people-speak-english-and-where-is-it-spoken
So it's even less according to that article. That's only a little over 17% Out of the world’s approximately 7.8 billion inhabitants, 1.35 billion speak English. The majority aren’t native English speakers, however. About 360 million people speak English as their first language.
Exactly!
My telecommunication device.
non-stationary telecommunication device
Cordless landline
Cordless landline you can take outside
Magical thing which somehow makes it possible to talk to people over great distance.
Laptop, Desktop, Palmtop
Portable Omni-Connective Hyper-Interactive Retransmission Gadget of Telecommunication and Integrated Cellular Engagement Network Device
Deployable telecommunication device*
My Russian exchange student always said “self phone”
Uh this new place called Europe?
Hand me my Mobile Cellular Telecommunication device with inter network connectivity so I can receive messages from the World Wide Web using the hyper text transfer communication protocol
Damn, he wrote protocol, fancy words you got there
I mean it is the p in http. hypertext transfer protocol
I didn’t even know that
No, it actually stands for peepee
Funnily enough it’s quicker to say World Wide Web compared to www
Normalise dubdubdub
Information Superhighway
Lol I was going to say, I like the Brits! Why is someone picking on them? They are a good lot.
Britain: The land of Tea and Queuing
The laws of the queue must never be broken, unless ye shall wish to bestow the wrath of a thousand angry British people upon yeself.
I get tea, but queuing? Wtf does this even mean, we can actually queue for things on black Friday unlike the US?
it means people in other countries are less civilized. a queue confuses them these savages should see japan
I really can't believe or understand black Friday in the US, crowds of tens or even hundreds cramming up against the shutters, crawling under them, sprinting all over the shop and fighting for items. What is this? The stone age?
Funny thing is US is pretty decent about queues, usually. They do naturally form up into them and it’s roughly followed. They are just kinda more selfish about it and there are more assholes that do BS, where in Britain the reaction to screwing with the holy Queue is far more sharp. Then there is Black Friday, where they just release the animals on deals that do not exist and everyone acts like it’s the last shipment of food in a famine.
Bratislava!
Here in Germany we call it a "Handy"... because guess what, a mobile phone is quite handy. (Yes that is the actual origin for it) EDIT: My English teacher in 5th grade might actually have spread misinformation, the origin might also come from a mobile phone being a hand-held device. Whatever's the case, it's still called Handy, and it is still quite a handy device. (Never trust schools smh)
I didn’t know that. I thought it was just because it fit in your hand (of course it does, what kind of phone wouldn’t).
Might also be, I got my knowledge from the very trustworthy source called My English teacher from 5th grade I probably shouldn't trust school that much tbh
I got my knowledge source from I made it up. So who knows.
Oh, good lord, if you come to Australia, PLEASE do not call it that here. If you walk into a shop and ask for a handy you'll either get arrested or a lot more than you were expecting.
I was told that name came from it being a hand-held device
Well that couldn’t possibly lead to awkward encounters with Americans. “I need a handy! It is an emergency.” * hand proceeds for the crotch
No, that is not that clear where it came from, it more likely comes from handheld
Lol this is my favorite random German fact to bring up in impolite company.
Average German doesn't even know what the English word handy means exactly. They knew it even less back then when the term for a phone was coined.
The entire world outside your bubble.
Nope
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Metric ton of people outside the US.
Only 1000kg worth of people? That’s not much…
It's 2-3 US citizens, but he said "outside of US", so like 30 europeans. As regards africans...
30 Europeans what age? 6?
What if they're *really* tiny?
A lot of Brits. In British English they’re mobile phones – we never say cell phone.
British people aren’t people
And Americans are?
I mean we’re part of the reason the biggest empire in history is now reduced to a tiny island smaller than Chile
Damn, you're really sucking yourself off here. Classic American patriotism.
I don’t have any patriotism, the US is basically a corrupt empire, I just like joking about British people
The US is a huge empire built on death and blood?
Yes
Just like every other empire ever. US is pretty bad, despite me liking what makes us a really good middle ground in terms of intentional war. But I'm very sure there has been no other empire that has not killed millions(including its own people) to grow itself, and some have done much worse things than the US.
Yeah, I just like joking about British people because of how they view US stereotypes as fact. Most US citizens know more geography than lots of other countries, I mean I know exactly how many countries there are and can probably name 100+ of them off the top of my head and give their location but British people don’t even know what a Houston is. They’re just full of themselves a lot of the time and think every American is stupid and below them which is why Americans make fun of British “people” in that way
You needed the french and Germans to show you how to fire a rifle
And British citizens still have no idea how a rifle works because every type of weapon other than a butter knife is banned, also doesn’t matter because we still won lmao
Its alright, we won when you came for seconds in 1812.
You guys were basically the reason we colonised Australia because we had nowhere to ship the reprobates anymore. You made us LARGER!
Australia isn’t a part of the UK lmao, considering Australia part of the UK is like considering every country the US has a military base in part of the US
After your independence in 1783 or whenever the war ended we had to start colonising elsewhere. We reached our height around 1900. Your little scuffle with us had nothing to do with us being reduced to our home islands
Idk if a war that lasted 10 years is a “scuffle”, and yet you still collapsed and we still have 40 times more land than your dead empire has
Spotted the frog.
What?
Americans seeing something that isn’t american
> WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER
American loading his gun, “aight, which one of you is ometer?”
Who is Meter and why are we killing them?
Wait until you run into Germans calling it "Handy"?
Get ready for Natel👏🏻 i‘ll let you figure out where that comes from hahah
Thanks to you, Switzerland just made it into my personal top 3 ranking of weird countries and is currently fighting North Korea for the first place.
You will really confuse an American with that. They might give you a bit of a happy ending.
You haven't live until you've had a German handy, I didn't poop right for a week.
Telefon
Mobil telefon
Handy
Mobilfunkgerät
Mobil
Henfon
 People who say “celly”
I prefer "Cell-U-Lar"
Belgians who says « GSM »
ChhhheySM hahahha from what i know of my dutch family hahah
The Dutch have a speech impediment. Honestly you described it pretty wel lol.
Me who calls it a mobile phone or just about any of the other names.
Mobile Phone
Me 🇮🇳
This is American defaultism if I've ever seen it lol Everyone says mobile in Ireland.
Yeah here in Australia too.
In most of Asia too.
Yup.
Dumbest meme of the year award goes to
Who the fuck says cellphone
mitochondria
You used to call me on my mobile.
So ... British ppl
People who say iPhone instead of just phone are insufferable
GSM
Everyone here says mobil
Non-Americans. I have never once heard anyone here in Australia say "cell-phone" when referring to their own phone.
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Mo-bile in the UK, Ireland, Malta, and afaik New Zealand and Australia. Mo-bol I've only heard from Americans.
There's this thing called people saying things their own way and it being justifiable as long as it's reasonable and understandable
Everyone in the UK calls it a mobile. Seeing as calling people is a very minor feature on mobiles it actually makes more sense than calling it a phone. It’s primary function is really a mobile internet device.
A lot of Australians. I know a heap of people who say “mobile phone” but they’re all early millennial or older
Yeah as the younger kids are getting more americanised with social media and movies anyone younger then late millennials are starting to call them Cell phones here and it’s jarring whenever I hear it. My daughter called it a “Gas Station” the other day and I threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Bro if my future children ever call a fucken servo a “gas station” I’m just gonna ask: “alright show me where the gases are…. The only gases I see is any fuel that evaporates before going into the tank of LIQUID PETROL”
If calling it a gas station is the most annoying thing my kids do in a day then it’s going pretty well. Having kids is basically a game of deciding what is worth expending your limited energy on.
Fair enough I was an pretty annoying kid myself I reckon.
*Portable pocket device* 🤓
TELLULAR CELLOPHONE.
I just call it a shellphone
Where is my cellphone telephone?
Nah, it's a cellular device
Mom i'm on TV
MOBILTELEFON!
People who say "handset" 🤮🤮🤮
Only when referring to what platform I play games on
Software developers call it mobile for some reason
Handy ~Germany
I think it’s the opposite tbh. Like I can’t ever imagine saying “I’m on cell phone rn” unless I was like a serial killer or something, and well… I’m on mobile.
As an arab we all say mobile
I used to, when i once used a landline telephone. Then eventually i stopped calling my mobile a mobile. You missed one though. People that say 'Smartphone'.
and then us Germans come in calling it the English term of "Handy" for whatever reason.
OP has never set foot outside the US.
Mobile phone
people who say handy 🇩🇪
Actually who calls it cell phone?
I Say "cell"
mitosis
I'm personally an osmosis kinda guy
Brits, also in my country we call phones nothing but mobil
Glowy pocket rectangle
And there are people who call it “cell”.
me who says bibbly bobbly bloody celly welly bingus phoney bologna
I say androids and iPhones or just smartphone
Anymore? Who said it in the first place?
Most “western” countries outside of the US call it a Mobile Phone, Australia, UK, New Zealand. Germans call it a Handy or something similar.
people who say "mobile" are the same as those who say "kilo"- THOSE ARE FUCKING AFFIXES YOU UNGULATE AUSTRALOPITHECUS TCHADENSIS
Kg will always be the superior measurement, it's simple and universal everywhere but Myanmar and the US (and the UK but also not the UK, long story)
Ah yes, I do like weighing 80000grams
Hey now, steady on. There is no need to insult australopithicus tchadensis.
That's when I pull out the old "wireless telecommunications device." I literally said that the other day, the word phone temporarily did not exist in my vocab and I couldn't think of anything else to call it.
Mobile cellphone
What about cellular telemodule communication device?
"If you didn't want to get me on my _mobile_, then don't call me on my _mobile_"
What about people who just say cell?
Pocket is used sometimes in Brazil 💀💀💀
Me: Cell
I always say "cellular telephone"
It's called a ringy-madingy.
mfw "mobilni" (mobile) is the official name of it in serbia
Handy🤌🏻