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Hi guys,

Can we say "Your voice is cutting" over the phone.
 
No. I don't know what you mean. It is not grammatically correct. What are you trying to say? Is there a reason that you want to say something specifically over the phone?

Be more careful with your thread titles. The word "avoice" does not exist. I assume you meant to put "A voice". However, that doesn't appear in your thread. A good title would have been "Your voice is cutting".
 
Your voice is cutting off over the phone.


--lotus
 
You're cutting in and out.
I keep losing your signal.
 
That's interesting that both of you have guessed that tufguy meant "cutting out". I was close to assuming that it meant the speaker had a "cutting voice" - perhaps that it sounded like he/she was always being "cutting" (sort of sarcastic) whenever they spoke.
 
In AmE, we use "cutting out" a lot for interrupted phone transmission. I don't know why.
 
Can we also say "You are going in and out"?
 
I think it's because you can actually "cut" the telephone line to stop somebody from using the phone. You see that a lot in the old Film Noir type movies.


--lotus
 
At least in American English, we say, "You're cutting out" when a voice on a cell phone becomes garbled, inaudible, or intermittent. That's how I read Emsr's question.
 
I haven't asked a question, Charlie! It was tufguy's question. We use "cutting out" in BrE too when the signal gets interrupted and we lose the person on the other end. I wasn't querying the use of "cutting out". I was pointing out that I hadn't associated "Your voice is cutting" with anything to do with the signal. I thought tufguy was actually trying to describe the speaker's voice characteristic.
 
tufguy said:
Can we also say "You are going in and out"?
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That's not natural for me. I would say "Hang on. I'm losing you" or maybe "You keep fading in and out".
 
"Your voice is breaking up."
 
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