"He talks on the telephone."
Translation:Lui parla al telefono.
January 25, 2013
11 Comments
Koolkaren
180
I guess that's how we'll have to think of it in Italian. Come to think of it, when we say,"I'm on the phone" in English, we're not actually sitting on top of the phone. That's probably a funny image to Italians learning English. :)
February 22, 2013
You're right. Sometimes I think up English phrases that are just as ludicrous.
February 22, 2013
Koolkaren
- 180
I suspect that it is simply that, in English, we talk 'on' the phone, in Italian they talk 'at' the phone. :)
July 11, 2013
