>I'm not looking forward to when these people start referring to phone numbers as "phones". In my native language (Russian) people already do (and have done lo

>I'm not looking forward to when these people start referring to phone numbers as "phones". In my native language (Russian) people already do (and have done long before email existed). In fact, I don't see why that would be unusual. When faxes were used, everyone used to refer to fax numbers as "fax", right?