The phrase "acceptable phone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a phone that meets certain standards or criteria for quality, functionality, or suitability.
Example: "The company provided an acceptable phone for employees to use while traveling on business."
Alternatives: "satisfactory phone" or "suitable phone".
In this scenario, you either develop an acceptable phone manner or you don't keep the job for very long (not that I especially wanted a job where I kept company with cadavers, but I still had rent to pay).
"Please do not use any of the following words: money, cash, food or emergency," the group advised volunteers of acceptable phone and walkie-talkie communications in a pre-event email.
Screen addiction alters this, and there are levels of disengagement that can turn a sentient being into a piece of furniture, but the parameters of acceptable phone use should surely widen at this point to permit some middle way between being on one's phone and considered rude, or turning the device off altogether.
Second, plug two PCs equipped with ethernet interface cards (typically well under $100) and 10BaseT connectors, which have been converted to fit into the standard jack with an RJ-11 plug, into the pair of acceptable phone jacks, run a network-aware operating system like Windows 95, and see if they find each other.
And it has become more acceptable to phone or send an e-mail message of thanks, too, as long as it's not from a cab two minutes after leaving.
Have you been dishing out more than your fair share of phubbs or have you learned to navigate the stormy waters of socially acceptable cell phone use?
So it's perfectly acceptable to phone a friend, plan a lunch date or buy yourself a half-dozen doughnuts to celebrate surviving drop-off.
But while wearing a wireless headset is starting to become more socially acceptable, wearing your phone is still considered geeky, Mr Huff observes.What is clear is that the mobile handset is now much more than just a phone, and depending on what else you want to do with it, it may assume a very different shape altogether.
This is the era of sexting, which on the one hand is the acceptable offspring of phone sex in long-distance relationships (and You've Got Mail) but on the other, results in a penis close-up before a sniff of a hello.
A phone-call was acceptable (particularly to mobile phones) but face-to-face with their GP was definitely preferred for receiving results, especially if positive.
The answer is a clear classroom policy for when it's acceptable to use phones, with mobile screen time separated from other activities in the lesson plan.
