2021-02-09 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – surfing the internet

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2021-02-09

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – surfing the internet

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ออกเสียง surfing = ‘SUR-fing’

ออกเสียง internet = “IN-TER-NET’ (unstressed)

Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary

Surfing the internet

“Channel-surfing” developed as an ironic term

to denote the very unathletic activity

of randomly changing channels on a television setwith a remote control.

Its only similarity to surfboarding on real surf

has to do with the esthetic of “going with the flow.”

The Internet could be a fearsomely difficult place to navigate

until the World Wide Web was invented;

casual clicking on Web links was naturally quicklycompared to channel-surfing,

so, the expression “surfing the Web” was a

natural extension of the earlier expression.

But the Web is only one aspect of the Internet,

and you label yourself as terminally uncool if you say “surfing the Internet.”

(Cool people say “Net” anyway.)

It makes no sense to refer to targeted,

purposeful searches for information as “surfing”;

for that reason, I call my classes on Internet research techniques

“scuba-diving the Internet."

However, Jean Armour Polly, who claims to have originated the phrase “surfing the Internet” in 1992, maintains that she intended it to have exactly the connotations it now has. See her page on the history of the term.