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  • Alright! Welcome back to Weekly Words! My name is Alisha. This week we're going to

  • look at the internets today. this sounds scary, let's begin.

  • The first word islive-tweet”. Live-tweet is a, for those you have a twitter

  • account, when you are watching something or listening to something at that happened the

  • popular TV show, or an awards show, and you write your comments on Twitter as it happened,

  • that's called live-tweeting something. An example sentence: I live tweeted the Grammy

  • Awards this year it was a lot of fun. That's a lie.

  • The next phrase isbinge-watch”. “Bingemeans to do something to excess

  • to do something too much. So now that and services like Hulu, or Netflix, or other TV

  • or movie viewing services, there might be different ones in your country that are available.

  • People like to binge-watch their favorite TV shows, meaning that they can sit and watch

  • all of their favorite TV show in maybe a weekend, or a week, or something like that. If they

  • just sit for hours and hours. I binge watched all of House of Cards this

  • season, I loved it. That's a true story.

  • The next word isneckbeard”. Oh my god I can't believe we're teaching them

  • this. It's not a very nice word, it typically… I'm gonna get in troubleNeckbeard is

  • a rude word that's used to refer to people, typically men, who do not have very good hygiene,

  • do not have very good personal care habits, and as a result, their beard, which typically

  • is on men's faces, or maybe in the chin or the jaw line, goes on to their neck.

  • In a sentence, there are a lot of neckbeards on the Internet.

  • make sure you don't have a neckbeard. I don't know.

  • Next isfandom”. “Fandomrefers to a group of fans of

  • video game, it could be an athlete, could be singer, whatever. When you talk about any

  • group of fans, you can refer to them as the fandom. For example, video game fandom on

  • the internet is everywhere, it's so popular. video games are. Maybe your favorite TV show

  • change direction, the story is suddenly changed and everybody is really upset about this change.

  • you might say, Oh, that recent change in the story has the fandom upset.

  • the next word ishyperconnected”. “Hyperconnectedrefers to somebody who's

  • just always has interconnection, someone who always has an internet connection, whether

  • on their smartphone, or tablet, or their PC, whatever it is, they might use to connect

  • to the internet they're always connected. “Hyperbeing super, you might say, I

  • like to stay hyperconnected so I always have all the news.

  • And that's the end of The Internet Today. Those are some words that you might encounter

  • today on the internet, so if you see them that's what they mean. Give them a try and

  • we'll see you again next week for more weekly words. Bye!

Alright! Welcome back to Weekly Words! My name is Alisha. This week we're going to

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