Timeline for Word for the typical posture of a smartphone user
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| Dec 8, 2016 at 3:36 | answer | added | Nikki | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Dec 7, 2016 at 19:11 | history | bounty ended | Mari-Lou A | ||
| S Dec 7, 2016 at 19:11 | history | notice removed | Mari-Lou A | ||
| Dec 7, 2016 at 1:54 | answer | added | Tod | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 0:12 | comment | added | Papa Poule | Several comments have already noted that “leaning on” can mean “depend on, be dependent on” and I think your Student, whether intentionally or not, hit the nail on the head with “leaning … on their phones” in this sense (maybe only youngsters are addicted to their phones in Italy but here in central Va. even most oldsters are so afflicted). For those who refuse to admit that they’re addicted to anything, there’s the somewhat less fitting “lean into” which can mean: “1. to do or say sometime to an extreme” or 2. “to do it ‘big’.” | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 16:47 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Yes, he deliberately used "leaned", he would know the term concentrated or absorbed, he is an advanced level speaker and he's very good. | |
| Dec 6, 2016 at 15:20 | comment | added | aparente001 | "my student wanted to convey the lack of eye contact between these young people, everyone is focussed on their display screens" - for this aspect, I'd suggest absorbed in their smartphones, or plugged into their smartphones. Did I understand right, that for your question you wanted to focus on the body position primarily? | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | BladorthinTheGrey | The iAddict? | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 17:19 | history | edited | BladorthinTheGrey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 2, 2016 at 2:54 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 2, 2016 at 2:41 | answer | added | DdTnT | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 20:41 | comment | added | michael.hor257k | @Mari-LouA Yes, the picture is illustrative of your question, no doubt. You should have photoshopped it... | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 20:37 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @michael.hor257k erm... lol! Try looking for an image of teenagers, in a group, not talking to each other, but intent on looking down on their smartphone at the same time. I got 5/6 :) | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 20:33 | comment | added | michael.hor257k | The picture is nice, but there are no smartphones in it. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 16:15 | answer | added | John Feltz | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 15:14 | answer | added | Curiouser... | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Dec 1, 2016 at 6:58 | history | bounty started | Mari-Lou A | ||
| S Dec 1, 2016 at 6:58 | history | notice added | Mari-Lou A | Draw attention | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 6:57 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 9:53 | comment | added | Stan | @Mari-LouA yep, it's a sad story for many iPhone 6 users XD | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 9:39 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Stan :) I've heard that it's a common complaint, am I right? Still, good line, made me smile. Thanks! | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 9:36 | comment | added | Stan | I leaned on my iPhone 6 ... And it bent. (True story) | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 9:01 | comment | added | user66974 | Yours is probably a more appropriate one. Slouch is a good suggestion, though. | |
| Oct 25, 2015 at 8:24 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 22, 2015 at 7:54 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
desperate measures were called for, I had to add an image.
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| Oct 21, 2015 at 8:07 | answer | added | Damien F. | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 21, 2015 at 5:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/656699080651870213 | ||
| Oct 20, 2015 at 21:23 | comment | added | Hot Licks | It's perfectly fine for a writer to use a "new" metaphor to describe some phenomenon if the meaning is clear to the reader and the analogy is appropriate. While there may be better descriptive phrases to use, I seen nothing wrong with that one. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 21:11 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | I dunno...I think to a native speaker, leaning would imply requiring support and it doesn't sound like that's what the student meant. Leaning, in the sense of the body being at an angle, brings a picture to mind that is not the one I think of when picturing someone using their smartphone. It's more like their body is more or less upright but their heads are bowed over their hand (with phone) which is held at chest level usually. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:53 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @FumbleFingers well of course he's Italian, the expression stood out, I think he might have been inspired by the leaning tower of Pisa! But overall, it's quite a good sentence. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think your "student" is either nns or not very articulate. You're quite right that huddled (or hunched over [their phones] would be more normal. When you lean on [something], that usually implies [something] is providing physical or metaphorical support, which doesn't really make sense in this context. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:44 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @Josh61 more or less, I think my student wanted to convey the lack of eye contact between these young people, everyone is focussed on their display screens. | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:43 | comment | added | deadrat | "hunched over"? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:41 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | I can see it being used in the figurative sense where they're leaning on their smartphones as in being dependent on them for what...entertainment? fitting in with the other students? | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 20:36 | history | asked | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |