Sunday, April 29, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
prank vs. crank
for this week I thought it would be interesting to see how by switchimg one letter specifically P to C in this instance can change the entire function of a situation. now when i was younger i haerd people say prank call or crank call alot but i never really got if there was a difference between the two or if somebody was just mispronouncing the phrase. so after looking a few things up this is what i came up with.
While a prank call is a practical joke made by a child or childish person, usually out of boredom. A crank call is a type of prank call where the person is old enough to have better ways of entertaining himself, or is motivated by pathology of some sort.There's some humor involved in a prank call though not always for the person targeted. Crank calls aren't meant to be funny, and usually they're intended to be scary or to antagonize in some way.
A kid making a prank call will target no one in particular, while a stalker making a crank call usually knows who he's calling, and doesn't like that person.
everybody knows the cliche prank calls: Prince albert in a can, refrigerator running, etc. the list goes on these are very childidsh things that can be annoying but aren't dangerous, while a crank call is more like-
Example : Crank Call
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While a prank call is a practical joke made by a child or childish person, usually out of boredom. A crank call is a type of prank call where the person is old enough to have better ways of entertaining himself, or is motivated by pathology of some sort.There's some humor involved in a prank call though not always for the person targeted. Crank calls aren't meant to be funny, and usually they're intended to be scary or to antagonize in some way.
A kid making a prank call will target no one in particular, while a stalker making a crank call usually knows who he's calling, and doesn't like that person.
everybody knows the cliche prank calls: Prince albert in a can, refrigerator running, etc. the list goes on these are very childidsh things that can be annoying but aren't dangerous, while a crank call is more like-
Example : Crank Call
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