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They were allowed to use their phones to look up words they did not know.
by rahimnathwani 1y ago
They were allowed to use their phones to look up words they did not know.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoLook up "whiskers," is a kind of cat. In what world does "whiskers" mean "bearded man"?
- carlosjobim 1y agoWhiskers are a mustache. It's not a kind of cat, it is the antenna hairs that cats have around their nose.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoOh you're right
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- ZephyrBlu 1y agoAre you a native English speaker? "whiskers" is a common euphemism for a moustache. I would be very surprised if a native speaker didn't know that, or couldn't infer from context.
- koakuma-chan 1y ago> Are you a native English speaker? Nope
- keiferski 1y agoIt’s not that rare of a word, but I wouldn't say it’s particularly common either. Definitely not a common word amongst anyone under the age of 40.
- npinsker 1y agoI accept the ambiguity there, but the mention of “voice” and “interminable brief” are more than enough to coax you to the right interpretation.
- palmotea 1y ago> Are you a native English speaker? "whiskers" is a common euphemism for a moustache. I would be very surprised if a native speaker didn't know that, or couldn't infer from context. It's not euphemism, whiskers are literally what a moustache is made from. A whisker is an individual male facial hair.
- tremon 1y ago> Look up "whiskers" ok: http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=whiskers http://dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=whisker... whiskers n 1: the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard ...]
- keiferski 1y agoI don’t think that would have been very useful, as Victorian English is typically written in a style that seems alien to modern ears. Perhaps a better title still would be: English students had difficulty understanding a passage written in a different culture and time. Which seems completely normal and expected to me. The issue is in defining “English” as too broad of a term.
- rahimnathwani 1y agoWould you expect that 19% could not read contemporary English at the level expected of a 10th grader? To establish a baseline, they had the students first take a standardized reading comprehension test, the Degrees of Reading Power test, designed for the 10th grade level. Almost all the students scored above 80, indicating they read at or above a 10th grade level.