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最令人反感網絡新詞出爐 “sexting”居首
'Sexting' tops list of Britain's most annoying new 'geek-speak' - but 'Intexticate' is close behind

[ 2011-10-24 08:41]

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'Sexting' was Britain's least-favourite piece of technology jargon - but terms such as 'intexticate', 'defriend' and 'Twittersphere' followed close behind.

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If you wince when you hear it then you are not alone in thinking 'sexting' is the most irritating phrase to have entered our lexicon this year.

It topped a YouGov poll of 2,054 adults in the UK which revealed our least favourite new technology jargon of 2011.

'Sexting' – meaning ‘the sending of sexually explicit photographs or messages by mobile phone’ – was the clear winner with 24 percent of votes cast.

The runner-up was 'Intexticated', with 13 percent of the vote - meaning ‘unable to concentrate while driving due to being distracted by texting’.

'Defriend', with eight percent, meaning, 'to remove someone from one’s list of friends on social networking site.'

Britain's Computeractive magazine, which conducted the poll, awarded 'sexting' its 'Unspeakable Award' for the worst new piece of technology jargon.

The prize was awarded for the ‘new, technology-related word most likely to make you wince, grimace or want to bang your head on the keyboard.'

The aim, the magazine said, was to promote the use of clear English and battle the technology world's addiction to jargon.

'There’s no arguing that 'intexticated', 'defriend' and 'Twittersphere' are all unspeakable words’, says Paul Allen, editor of Computeractive.

'But 'sexting' is a worthy winner.'

'When you first hear it, you don't know whether to wince, howl or just weep for the English language.'

'Any word voted more horrible than ‘intexticated’ deserves an award.’

The incident that made 'sexting' famous involved the use of Twitter rather than a mobile phone, referring to US Congressman Anthony Wiener's Twitter message of a suggestive picture to a 21-year-old woman.

The incident led, in June 2011, to Weiner’s resignation.

Many of the words in the top ten seem to involve Twitter - possibly due to the large number of different apps users use to access it, which has led to a lot of compound words.

The voters chose from a shortlist of words determined by Computeractive.

(Read by Lee Hannon. Lee Hannon is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)

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如果你在聽到sexting（發性短信）這個詞的時候會皺眉，那么你并不孤單，有許多人都認為這個今年剛被收入字典的詞匯是最煩人的。

YouGov公司這項涵蓋了英國2054名成年人的調查揭示，sexting一詞是2011年最不受歡迎的新科技術語。

Sexting一詞的意思是“用手機發送色情照片或色情短信”，該詞以24%的投票率成為絕對的“勝利者”。

排名第二的詞是Intexticated，獲得13%的票數，該詞的意思是“駕車時由于發短信分心而不能集中注意力”。

獲得8%票數的詞Defriend意思是“在社交網站上將某人從好友列表中刪除”。

開展這一調查的英國雜志《Computeractive》將最糟科技新術語的“不可言說獎”頒給了sexting一詞。

該獎頒給的是“最讓你想皺眉、做鬼臉或把頭往鍵盤上撞的與科技相關的新詞匯”。

該雜志稱，開展這一調查的目的是為了推動純正英語的使用，對抗科技世界對術語的沉迷。