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Thumb Culture
How are cell phones affecting youth communication?
Sep. 8th 2006
An unexpected problem
Of course, this woman isn't the only person with super-fast text-messag
ing skills. Many young cell-phone users can dash off whole messages in under a
minute. But all this rapid and constant thumb-typing has led to at least one un
expected consequence.
It's created a new health problem, known as "text-messaging injury." Ce
ll-phone users sometimes develop severe swelling and pain in their thumbs. This
injury is caused by the thumb making the same small movements hundreds of time
s a day.
"Because the movements are small, they do not cause the blood to circulate," s
aid Andrew Chadwick, an expert from the U.K. "That means the fingers are acting
like an engine without oil."
Doing "finger stretches" before and after text-messaging can reduce the health
risk. Experts also recommend text-messaging no more than an hour and a half a d
ay. The key is to keep messages short. Fortunately, cell-phone users have devel
oped their own special abbreviations. That makes typing easier, and just might
help prevent sore thumbs, too. CU L8ER!
Word bank
Consequence(n) 後果
The teacher taught her students about the dangerous consequences of smoking.
Swell (v) 腫脹(n)
After the spider bit Jake’s hand, his fingers began to swell immediately.
Circulate (v) 循環;流通
The fan in my room helps the air to circulate and keep me cool.
Abbreviation (n) 縮寫
The abbreviation for kilogram is kg, but the abbreviation for pound is lB.
More information
Text message (n) 文字短信
Tara sent Tom a text message to tell him she would be late for the concert.
Greeting card (n) 賀卡
People like to send greeting cards at Christmas. In fact, more than 2.6 billion
cards are sent each Christmas!
Dash off something (v) 快速完成某事
I don’t have time to write a letter to Tom, so I’ll just dash off a quick not
e instead.
中文翻譯
當然，這位婦女不是唯一的鍵入文字短信速度最快的。很多年輕人使用手機能在
一分鐘內快速鍵入整條文字短信。但，所有這些速度和持續性使用拇指按鍵能導致一個令
人意想不到的結果。
這將導致一個新的有關健康的問題，被稱為"文字短信的傷害"。手機使用者的拇
指常常發展成嚴重的脹痛。這種傷痛往往由於手機使用者每天按鍵千佰次的相同動作而導
致。
"由於大拇指運動的範圍小而導致血液循環障礙"一位英國的專家安杜魯.查德維克
說。"大拇指象一台沒有油的正在運轉的發動機"。
發短信前後先做一做"大拇指的伸展運動"可以減低傷害（拇指）健康的危險。專
家們還建議（推薦）發短信最好不要超過一天一個半小時的量。關鍵是；儘可能發"短"訊
息。可喜的是，手機使用者已發明有他們一套自己的縮寫語。使鍵入文字短信更容易從而
防止大拇指的酸痛。CU L8ER! "See you later"
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