Outdated Realtor Words (Page 2): I think the "entitled ones" may be those who chose to continue to use language that is offensive to some.

cbabcock

LDB415 wrote:

I would have agreed completely until a few years ago. The recent major changes do not follow the same slow and gradual change pattern. While a small portion might, there is a significant spike in changes made just to satisfy the never satisfiable entitled ones.

I think the "entitled ones" may be those who chose to continue to use language that is offensive to some.

BebuLamar

People often accused me of reading between the lines and taking people words for what's they imply but to me whatever word you use it could be offensive or not.
I am Asian and one day I and my 2 brothers went in to a Circuit City (well good they are not around anymore) the salesman said to the other salesman that "Just just saw the three stooges in color". There is no words in his sentence as considered offensive but I if couldn't keep my temper I would have punched the guy.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar wrote:

People often accused me of reading between the lines and taking people words for what's they imply but to me whatever word you use it could be offensive or not.
I am Asian and one day I and my 2 brothers went in to a Circuit City (well good they are not around anymore) the salesman said to the other salesman that "Just just saw the three stooges in color". There is no words in his sentence as considered offensive but I if couldn't keep my temper I would have punched the guy.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

cbabcock wrote:

I think the "entitled ones" may be those who chose to continue to use language that is offensive to some.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

BebuLamar wrote:

People often accused me of reading between the lines and taking people words for what's they imply but to me whatever word you use it could be offensive or not.
I am Asian and one day I and my 2 brothers went in to a Circuit City (well good they are not around anymore) the salesman said to the other salesman that "Just just saw the three stooges in color". There is no words in his sentence as considered offensive but I if couldn't keep my temper I would have punched the guy.

People always have been, and always will be, nasty.

bcplimpton Loc: Southern New Jersey

mg1962 wrote:

Wow, the real estate world has gone stupid!! All of the terms for years have made sense. I wonder what they will start to call a bi-level home?

How about Raised Ranch?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

jerryc41 wrote:

I don't think the change is just for idiots. I suspect that a realtor would prefer not to use terms like "granny room," just as someone would not use the term "Victrola." As times, technology, and society change, so does the language. I think it's more about being up to date than being politically correct. Remember when cell phones were called "cellular phones"? They eventually became "cell phones." In other countries, they are "mobiles."

Cellular and cell are both misleading terms. The technology has changed as we evolved to 2G, 3G (both obsolete in the USA), 4G, 4G LTE, and 5G. Much of it isn't really "cellular."

Most people 14-84 use smartphones now. "Just a cell phones" are used by middle schoolers with strict parents, and geriatrics. "Landlines" are all but gone, except for geriatrics and businesses and people who have no 911 service on their smartphones.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bcplimpton wrote:

How about Raised Ranch?

Like on stilts?

Multi-level separated by multi short stair sets.

I'll use split level.......

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

burkphoto wrote:

Cellular and cell are both misleading terms. The technology has changed as we evolved to 2G, 3G (both obsolete in the USA), 4G, 4G LTE, and 5G. Much of it isn't really "cellular."

Most people 14-84 use smartphones now. "Just a cell phones" are used by middle schoolers with strict parents, and geriatrics. "Landlines" are all but gone, except for geriatrics and businesses and people who have no 911 service on their smartphones.

Um, I don't think the post is about "misleading" terms.......

BebuLamar

burkphoto wrote:

Cellular and cell are both misleading terms. The technology has changed as we evolved to 2G, 3G (both obsolete in the USA), 4G, 4G LTE, and 5G. Much of it isn't really "cellular."

Most people 14-84 use smartphones now. "Just a cell phones" are used by middle schoolers with strict parents, and geriatrics. "Landlines" are all but gone, except for geriatrics and businesses and people who have no 911 service on their smartphones.

Why are they not "Cellular"?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

burkphoto wrote:

Cellular and cell are both misleading terms. The technology has changed as we evolved to 2G, 3G (both obsolete in the USA), 4G, 4G LTE, and 5G. Much of it isn't really "cellular."

Most people 14-84 use smartphones now. "Just a cell phones" are used by middle schoolers with strict parents, and geriatrics. "Landlines" are all but gone, except for geriatrics and businesses and people who have no 911 service on their smartphones.

The land area covered by a communications tower is called a "cell".
If the communications devices are using these towers, they are still "cellular", whether 3G, 4G, 5G, 8G, or what.
Doesn't matter how "smart" the phones are,or not.
It's a type of communications network.

BebuLamar

Longshadow wrote:

The land area covered by a communications tower is called a "cell".
If the communications devices are using these towers, they are still "cellular", whether 3G, 4G, 5G, 8G, or what.
Doesn't matter how "smart" the phones are,or not.
It's a type of communications network.

And Cellular made it possible to have the mobile phones we have today. If your phone only connects to one location then it's impossible.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Longshadow wrote:

The land area covered by a communications tower is called a "cell".
If the communications devices are using these towers, they are still "cellular", whether 3G, 4G, 5G, 8G, or what.
Doesn't matter how "smart" the phones are,or not.
It's a type of communications network.

The term cellular referred to a type of completely analog radio telecommunications developed about fifty years ago. It used towers laid out in a semi-honeycomb-like grid. Frequency switching occurred to do the call handoffs as you moved from one "cell" to another. It was noisy, and calls dropped frequently when you momentarily passed through a null area between two cellular nodes. There weren't many transceivers, because frequency spectrum was limited, and you had a very limited number of channels per provider. With narrow bandwidths allocated to each call, they sounded pretty awful. Then things got digital.

The term, 'cellular' is still in common parlance, but as a telecom engineer described it to me, it's technically incorrect. Mobile wireless digital Internet multicasting is more accurate. Modern systems use BOTH frequency switching and digital multicasting schemes to allow greatly expanded call volumes over limited spectrum bandwidth. When everything sends data packets from device to device, reliability goes up, and call quality does, too. Most smartphones will work over WiFi, as well as the phone company network, because of VOIP — voice over Internet protocols. We use WiFi calling at home, until the cable goes out. Then we have to switch off WiFi on our phones... The quality drop is dramatic.

LDB415 Loc: Houston south suburb

Say thank you to Hedy Lamarr, the famous actress.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

burkphoto wrote:

The term cellular referred to a type of completely... (show quote)

So I guess they are no longer cells.
Must be elephants.

We need to tell the world they are wrong.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_network

VOIP is NOT cellular.