Comment on Phrases like “I am here” or “Are you here yet?” are used today more than in the past because of cellphones.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

“Where are you?” is not something that many people would have said aloud outside of a game of hide and seek before the advent of pay phones and only rarely until the turn of the century or so.

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