Who taught: Carol and Alan

butt dial (source: http://aiminglow.com/)

A few days ago, Carol forwarded me a tweet by AlanHungover.

His tweet says:

My Grandpa confused the term “butt dial” with “booty call.” I almost fainted when he said “I booty called your mother last night.”

I already mentioned about the expression, booty call. If you do not remember, here is the link to my old post.

What is butt dial? Have you ever gotten a phone call but the one who makes the call does not speak at all but you keep hearing noises? That is probably due to butt dialing. You would have probably made that kind of call in the past too. Usually, it happens when you put your cell phone in your back pocket and sit down in a chair or a sofa. So, it is not a horrible thing to do. On the other hand, booty call is not considered to be a good thing. Well, it depends, I guess.

As I already mentioned in the old post, booty actually means butt. Call and dial mean the same thing. In that sense, it is not impossible to confuse those two expressions, even for native English speakers.

In reality, they are so different from each other. I would also be very very surprised by my Grandpa, saying “I booty called your mother last night.”

I would be like, “What? What is wrong with my family. My mother is your daughter, Grandpa!”

Anyway, since I heard that story, I feel a lot more comforted because even native English speakers are confused with all of these crazy expressions. I guess I am doing OK. What do you think, my friends? Wait, can I also say butt call to mean butt dial? How about booty dial? Would that be OK?

BTW, you should never forget these two expressions.