Re: EDICT: red and blue telephones



"Paul Blay" <ask_me_or_get_spam_trapped@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
<dq3i87$9ue$1$830fa7a5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:19:51 -0000
>Edict has these two entries.
>
>青電話 【あおでんわ】 (n) blue public phone
>赤電話 【あかでんわ】 (n) public telephone
>
>1. Are those designations still in current use or
>are they obsolete?

赤電話に関しては、
1995年に廃止された、という情報がありますが、
http://home3.highway.ne.jp/hasu/redtel.htm
http://www.maipaso.net/maipaso/backnumber/no36_040830.htm

2004年に存在する赤電話の写真もあります。
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~QR2M-SKMT/Photo2004/photo113.htm

私は、赤電話はもう見かけることはありませんが、青電話(緑の電話機)はまだ
あるような気がします。(確認はしていません。)テレフォンカードがまだ存在
しますから、青電話はたぶんあるでしょう。

>2. Apart from being 'red' or 'blue' is there no
>other useful defining characteristic to describe
>them?

赤電話はお店などに管理を委託しているものです。10円玉でかけていた時代はほ
とんどこれでした。100円玉の入るものもありました。
テレフォンカードの入る赤電話、というのはおそらく存在しないとおもいます。

ちなみに、ピンク電話は一般加入電話を公衆用に使えるようにしたものです。

--
Annie
mailto:anniek@xxxxxxx
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