{"id":548,"date":"2011-08-04T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=548"},"modified":"2011-08-04T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:17:48","slug":"funny-descriptions-telefonspargel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Funny descriptions: Telefonspargel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I stumbled upon a new description for public phones. While they were usually
\ndescribed as “pencil” or “yellow mobile toilet” and some other descriptions, the Deutsche
\nTelekom began dismounting the well-known phone booths and replace them with rather
\nwindy phone pillars that allow everyone within 2 meters to hear what you’re saying…<\/p>\n

When reading posts about different topics in my favorite forum, I saw this from a guy who was arguing with some other about the Telekom automatic voice control service:<\/p>\n

\n

nein, ich arbeite dort nicht.<\/p>\n

ich kenne aber deren sprachcomputer und habe auch von anderen nur gutes \u00fcber die spracherkennung des system geh\u00f6rt.<\/p>\n

(ich melde oft defekte telefonspargel, deshalb kenne ich das spielzeug dort)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Translated, it might be like this:<\/p>\n

\n

Nope, I am not working there.<\/p>\n

However I know about their voice-controlled service and have heard only good things about the voice-recognition of that service.<\/p>\n

I, myself am reporting defective “Telefonspargel” there and know their toy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now you ask, what the heck IS a “Telefonspargel”?
\nGoogle brought up this picture (Click to enlarge):<\/p>\n

\"Telefonspargel\"<\/a>

A so-called "Telefonspargel"<\/p><\/div>\n

You must admit… the similarity to a classic asparagus is really given:<\/p>\n

\"Spargel<\/a>

A typical white Asparagus<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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