If you look up in any standard dictionary, you will not find the word ‘yellular’. It is an interesting and useful slang term which is frequently heard these days. The term is a blend of two familiar words: ‘yell’ (= to shout in a loud, sharp way) and ‘cellular’ (related to cell phone).
Mobile phones obviously help us to stay in touch with our dear and near ones. However, the incessant technical faults sometimes make it difficult for the listener to hear what the person on the other end says. It can be due to poor network coverage or technical glitch of the user’s cell phone among many other reasons.
What happens normally on such occasions? The speaker yells at the top of their voice, thinking that yelling will troubleshoot the fault and make the connection better! This act of shouting, which is often a nuisance for others, is called ‘yellular’. When you see someone does it, you can say, ‘he’s going yellular’.
More examples:
1) My Bengali roommate goes yellular whenever she talks to her parents who live in some remote village in West Bengal .
2) Tom: “Hey, why are you screaming through your cell phone?”
Jerry: “It’s a terrible line, buddy. So I’m trying my yellular technology!”
3) After disturbing our sleep by snoring aloud the whole night, he went yellular at 5 o’ clock in the morning.
4) Stop going yellular and try to call her back after some time.
1 comment:
Very nice usage. I was used to he, 'He is shouting over the phone' which is so common sentence these days. Thanks for the new knowledge.
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