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English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering | | English term or phrase: walkie-talkie | walkie-talkie.
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| | | "Walkie talkie = slang term for "portable radio device" | Explanation:
Greetings... tqaHaiya Tayyiba wa b3ad...
The generic Arabic (military) term is:
jihaz laa silkii (جهاز لا سلكي
) = radio
Background and comment:
The expression "walkie talkie" is a slang term that US infantry soldiers originated during World War II for a self-contained portable -- and short-ranged -- radio device that could be carried in one hand and operated by the soldier while walking.
Those WWII-vintage military portable radios were bulky and blockish (resembled long square bricks with a thick rod antennae protruding from the top of the case). They were very heavy.
The term descended into disuse in the 1960s, but it seems to have had a rebirth with the recent advent and widespread marketing of cellular phones that also provide a walkie-talkie function. In that function (technically called "semi-duplex" or "half-duplex," IIRC), one person talks while pressing a button on the device, and then the person releases that "push-to-talk" button to receive and hear the response by the other party in the conversation.
Conversing in "walkie talkie" mode may sound neat and nice, but it is not as efficient as the two-way, "full duplex" mode of operation of regular cell phones.
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Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 14:06
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4 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +4 "Walkie talkie = slang term for "portable radio device"
Explanation:
Greetings... tqaHaiya Tayyiba wa b3ad...
The generic Arabic (military) term is:
jihaz laa silkii (جهاز لا سلكي
) = radio
Background and comment:
The expression "walkie talkie" is a slang term that US infantry soldiers originated during World War II for a self-contained portable -- and short-ranged -- radio device that could be carried in one hand and operated by the soldier while walking.
Those WWII-vintage military portable radios were bulky and blockish (resembled long square bricks with a thick rod antennae protruding from the top of the case). They were very heavy.
The term descended into disuse in the 1960s, but it seems to have had a rebirth with the recent advent and widespread marketing of cellular phones that also provide a walkie-talkie function. In that function (technically called "semi-duplex" or "half-duplex," IIRC), one person talks while pressing a button on the device, and then the person releases that "push-to-talk" button to receive and hear the response by the other party in the conversation.
Conversing in "walkie talkie" mode may sound neat and nice, but it is not as efficient as the two-way, "full duplex" mode of operation of regular cell phones.
cniton
Career and assignments in military telecomunications
| Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 14:06
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in pair: 320
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