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quarta-feira, 5 de outubro de 2011

Cartoon: Mobile Phone Addiction

This cartoon by Andy Davey from The Sun relates to research that shows that smartphones have turned Britain into a nation of mobile addicts. Regulator Ofcom found that 60 per cent of teenagers and more than a third of adults are 'highly addicted' to using their mobile phones. 
The cartoon shows young people in a park. They are all on their mobile phones. The boy and girl in the foreground are actually speaking to each other on their phones. The joke is that they don't realize how addicted they are.

VOCABULARY

OMG stands for Oh My God, and  LOL for Laughing Out Loud. Both are examples of SMS language or Textese (also known as text-speak). 

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