I think, Therefore IM Flashcards
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scribble [skrɪbəl]
plague [pleɪg]
Ms. Harding scribbles the words that have plagued generations of schoolchildren across her whiteboard: There. Their. They’re.
[VERB] If you scribble something, you write it quickly and roughly.
[VERB] If you are plagued by unpleasant things, they continually cause you a lot of trouble or suffering.
lingua franca
spitfire = rapid-fire
This, after all, is their online lingua franca: English adapted for the spitfire conversational style of Internet instant messaging.
[NOUN] A lingua franca is a language or way of communicating which is used between people who do not speak one another’s native language.
[ADJ] [ADJ n] A rapid-fire conversation or speech is one in which people talk or reply very quickly.
creep into
Ms. Harding, who has seen such shortcuts creep into student papers over the last two years, said she gave her students a warning: “If I see this in your assignments, I will take points off.”
[VERB] If something creeps in or creeps back, it begins to occur or becomes part of something without people realizing or without them wanting it. 스며들어가다
head-on
draw the line
“Kids should know the difference,” said Ms. Harding, who decided to address this issue head-on this year. “They should know where to draw the line between formal writing and conversational writing.”
[ADJ] A head-on conflict or approach is direct, without any attempt to compromise or avoid the issue.
refuse to do or accept something
*draw a line in the sand :
set a limit that you refuse to allow something to go beyond
breezy
As more and more teenagers socialize online, middle school and high school teachers like Ms. Harding are increasingly seeing a breezy form of Internet English jump from e-mail into schoolwork.
[ADJ] If you describe someone as breezy, you mean that they behave in a casual, cheerful, and confident manner.
to one’s dismay
To their dismay, teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @.
[NOUN] [FORMAL] Dismay is a strong feeling of fear, worry, or sadness that is caused by something unpleasant and unexpected. 실망스럽게도, 놀랍게도
deduct
tsk-tsk
errant [erənt]
Teachers have deducted points, drawn red circles and tsk-tsked at their classes. Yet the errant forms continue.
[VERB] When you deduct an amount from a total, you subtract it from the total.
쯧쯧
[ADJ] Errant is used to describe someone whose actions are considered unacceptable or wrong by other people. For example, an errant husband is unfaithful to his wife.
=wrong
abbreviate [ə’bri:vieɪt]
You are so used to abbreviating things, you just start doing it unconsciously on schoolwork and reports and other things.
[VERB] If you abbreviate something, especially a word or a piece of writing, you make it shorter.
riddled with
Ms. Brecker once handed in a midterm exam riddled with instant-messaging shorthand.
[ADJ] [v-link ADJ with n] If something is riddled with undesirable qualities or features, it is full of them.
be stunned by
termpaper
Melanie Weavers was stunned by some of the term papers she received from a 10th-grade class she recently taught as part of an intership.
[VERB] If you are stunned by something, you are extremely shocked or surprised by it and are therefore unable to speak or do anything.
[NOUN] A term paper is an essay or report which a student writes on a subject that he or she has studied during a term at a school, college, or university. 학기말리포트
flirt
set up dates
In addition to cellphone text messaging, Weblogs and e-mail, it has become a popular means of flirting, setting up dates, asking for help with homework and keeping in contact with distant friends.
[VERB] If you flirt with someone, you behave as if you are sexually attracted to them, in a playful or not very serious way.
outgrowth
rapid-fire
The abbrviations are a natural outgrowth of this rapid-fire style of communication.
[NOUN] Something that is an outgrowth of another thing has developed naturally as a result of it. -의 파생물
center around
They have a social life that centers around typed communication.
~에 중점을 두다
nurture
milieu [‘mɪlju:]
They have a writing style that has been nurtured in a teenage social milieu.
[VERB] [FORMAL] If you nurture plans, ideas, or people, you encourage them or help them to develop.
[NOUN] Your milieu is the group of people or activities that you live among or are familiar with. 사회적 환경 =background
creeping
arc
Some teachers see the creeping abbreviations as part of a continuing assault of technology on formal wrtten English. Others take it more lightly, saying that it is just part of the larger arc of language evolution.
(명사 앞에만 씀) 좋지 않은 일이 서서히[몰래] 진행되는[다가오는] , 부지불식간에
[NOUN] An arc is a smoothly curving line or movement. 호/ 테두리
the larger arc of language evolution 언어진화의 큰 테두리
summon
be out of touch
get with it
The student was sumoned to the board to translate the sentence into standard English: “Before we perform, people have to practice.” She realized that the students thought she was out of touch “It was like ‘Get with it’, Bova.” she said.
[VERB] [FORMAL] If you summon someone, you order them to come to you.
have/not have recent knowledge or news of something, and so fully/not fully understand it 구닥다리다
become aware of the most recent ideas, developments, events, etc 유행에 민감하다.
unrepentant [ʌnrɪ’pentənt]
Studnets are sometimes unrepentant.
[ADJ] If you are unrepentant, you are not ashamed of your beliefs or actions.
[ADJ] Someone who is repentant shows or says that they are sorry for something wrong they have done.
proofread
She proofread a paper last year only to get it returned with the messaging abbreviations circled in red.
[VERB] When someone proofreads something such as a book or an article, they read it before it is published in order to find and mark mistakes that need to be corrected.
squiggly [s’kwɪgəli]
by default
The spelling checker doesn’t always help either students say. For one, Microsoft Word’s squiggly red spell-check lines don’t appear beneath single letters and numbers such as u,r,c,2 and 4. Nor do they catch words which have numbers in them such as “18r” and “b4” by default.
[ADJ] Squiggly lines are lines that bend and curl in an irregular way.
- if something happens by default, it happens because you have not made any other decision or choices which would make things happen differently 자연스럽게
accent
facile [fæsəl]
Teenagers have essentially developed an unconscious “accent” in their typing. They have gotten facile at typing and they are not paying attention.
[NOUN] Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from. 말씨
[ADJ] If you describe someone’s arguments or suggestions as facile, you are criticizing them because their ideas are too simple and indicate a lack of careful, intelligent thinking. 안이한
passe [pæ’seɪ]
Teenagers have long pushed the boundaries of spoken language, introducing words that then become passe with adult adoption. 어른이 사용하면 더이상 그 언어를 사용하지 않고 새로운 언어를 사용한다.
ADJ] If someone describes something as passé, they think that it is no longer fashionable or that it is no longer effective.
dictate
Language is spread because not anyone dictates any one thing to happen. 어느 한 사람이 일어나는 어떤 것을 좌우하는 것은 아니다.
[VERB] If one thing dictates another, the first thing causes or influences the second thing. 결정하다 좌우하다
fad
grow out of something
Others say that the instant-messaging style might simply be a fad, something that students will grow out of.
[NOUN] You use fad to refer to an activity or topic of interest that is very popular for a short time, but which people become bored with very quickly.
- to stop doing something or suffering from something as you become older
spark
Others teachers encourage studnets to use messaging shorthand to spark their thinking process.
- [VERB] If one thing sparks another, the first thing causes the second thing to start happening.
