When you write down a phone number, do you space out the numbers with a - or a dot?

[gotsmack]

If you write down someones phone number do you space out the numbers with a dash or a dot?

Example:
123-456-7890

or

123.456.7890

You can also be the bastard that does 1234567890.

I was taught to use the dash growing up in NJ in the 80s. I think using the dot is more popular in Europe, but I am seeing it a lot over here now. Maybe the younger generations are using the dot. Kinda like # is no longer a pound sign but is a hashtag now.

Your thoughts?


No poll.

 

[lxskllr]

If I'm typing I use a dot. If handwriting, I leave a gap between the groupings.

 

[Anubis]

- always a -

 

[xBiffx]

(123) 456-7890

<--Bastard that still thinks we have 7 digit phone numbers when in reality we have moved to a 10 digit number. The area code is no longer a prefix or appendage but rather an integral part of the number. I will learn someday.

 

[cyclistca]

This needs a poll

I use a -

 

[Zeze]

Neither. Just small spaces.

 

[darkxshade]

onetwothree fourfivesix seveneightninezero

 

[highland145]

La-a.

 

[QueBert]

periods look l33t

111.111.1111 > 111-111-1111

 

[sixone]

-

Periods look euro-trashy.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I use hyphens. Periods don't get parsed properly in some software I use and it screws things up.

 

[vi edit]

Periods are for IP addresses, not phone numbers.

 

[RedString]

Hyphens. Who the hell uses periods? I'm not writing an IP address.

I also use parentheses around the area code. Something about a properly wrote phone numbers is just pleasing to the eye.

 

[Blackjack200]

Hyphens. Who the hell uses periods? I'm not writing an IP address.

I also use parentheses around the area code. Something about a properly wrote phone numbers is just pleasing to the eye.

I see it a lot now. I did it for a little while too, and then I thought it looked kind of douchey, so I went back to the hyphens.

I never liked the parentheses fwiw. I guess they made a bit more sense when you only had to dial the exchange and the number unless you were dialing another area code, they switched over to mandatory 10 digit dialing when I was like 10. I write my phone numbers xxx-xxx-xxxx.

 

[DougK62]

I grew up using the hyphen, but use the dot now. To me it appears more elegant.

 

[nageov3t]

handwriting: dash
typing: period

 

[clamum]

I use the

XXX-XXX-XXXX

format (typing or writing).

 

[QueBert]

Hyphens. Who the hell uses periods? I'm not writing an IP address.

I also use parentheses around the area code. Something about a properly wrote phone numbers is just pleasing to the eye.

that's so 1960's

[111] 111.1111 is how you should write a number in 2012

 

[xBiffx]

Periods are for IP addresses, not phone numbers.

Here I thought they were just an excuse. Learned something.

 

[Printer Bandit]

morse:

....- ----. ...-- ----- ...-- ---.. ..--- --... ....- .----

 

[lxskllr]

Here I thought they were just an excuse. Learned something.

:^D

 

[SKORPI0]

(555)123-4567. :hmm:

 

[rcpratt]

I use periods when I'm typing, for no particular reason.

 

[xanis]

(123) 456-7890

or

123-456-7890

 

[xSauronx]

who writes anymore?
/they go in my phone without spaces, dots, dashes, or parenthesis