With news clerk Amanda Robbins on vacation this week, a few of us here are sharing her workload of handling obituaries and the calendar, going through the mail, writing wedding announcements and typing up news briefs.
Regarding that last little duty, one afternoon a couple days ago found me typing up this brief about an outfit called Love INC, which stands for Love In the Name of Christ. The group is forming a chapter here in Linn County.
At the end of the brief, I planned to include a phone number readers could call for more info, and when I looked back at the press release from which I was gathering my material, I saw the phone number was listed with the last four numbers being expressed as LOVE.
I started just to type it in like that but stopped because, quite frankly, I can’t stand seeing all or part of a phone number being expressed as letters. I’m just not set up to process telephone-related information in that way, so I converted LOVE to 5083, which I realize isn’t as catchy, but then again, aren’t you looking for numbers, rather than letters, when you go to a telephone keypad?
2 comments
jennifermoody says:
Sep 25, 2009
I think I'd put in both. I don't want to look up letters when I'm typing in a phone number, but on the other hand, knowing it's "LOVE" might help me remember the number.
meremark says:
Sep 26, 2009
… and then, when you do have a WORD to convert to NUMBER, you could misdial it, Steve. tsk tsk
LOVE converts to 5683 (the character 'O' (oh) is not the numeral '0' (zero))
I convert many phone numbers to words for my own amusement … and better remembering. For examples, the 5683 converts to other words such as:
LOUD (excessive, as this religion-flogging uber-righteous group sounds to me),
LOUF (as in LOL),
KNUD (as in dried krud),
JOVE (as in the jovial 'namesake' of JOKE),
KOUF (as in ducking the question about {ahem …cough, cough} their aims)
KNUF (no mas, nuff said)
Any one of which is more (than 'LOVE') likely to stick in my memory as description I associate with such an "outfit."