[asterisk-users] Half Off Topic Questions

[Barry Flanagan]

On 6 March 2018 at 09:49, Antony Stone <Antony.Stone at asterisk.open.source.it
> wrote:

> On Tuesday 06 March 2018 at 09:05:25, Markus Weiler wrote:
>
> > Hi Group,
> >
> > we're just wondering, in German we call the different types of
> phone-numbers
> > (Geographic,mobile,national,VoIP...) Rufnummerngassen (phone number
> alleys
> > ;-) )
> > Is there an english word for this?
>
> No.
>
> It's just another example of German choosing to have a single word for
> something, where English uses two or more.
>
> In English I'd say "number type", but that's just my opinion - others might
> describe this differently.
>

What about "Nature of Address" (NOA) ?

I like Rufnummerngassen though :-)

-Barry


> Just the word "Rufnummer" on its own is another example - "phone number".
>
>
> Antony.
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