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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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That's because...
In the case of the telephone call, you are the only object.

When it comes to writing, the implied letter is the main object, and you are the second object.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:32, 1 reply)
Nonsense.
What about the implied telephone instead of the letter?
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 16:33, closed)
Um
"I'll write to you" means "I'll write a letter to you".

"I'll phone you" doesn't mean "I'll phone a telephone you".
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 17:17, closed)
I'll ring you?

(I helped save b3ta! Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 14 Apr 2010, 18:00, closed)
It's the verbalising of write. Just as it is of telephone.

(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 9:04, closed)

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