Name: Why we press buttons: 6 Minute English
Uploaded: 2019-01-13T14:14:36.000Z
Duration: 6 min 19 s
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Rob: Hello. This is 6 Minute English and I'm Rob.

Present continuous

Rob: Things like your bedside alarm, radio,

Neil: Er – I think I've got a fear of pronouncing

these words! No idea what the answer is, I think

it's one of the others – or is it? It's

Rob: Well, I'll have the answer later in the

life. Steven Connor, Professor of English

pleasure and the temptation of buttons…

to be kept away from children, so they've

made quite hard to push – like put behind

Neil: That they have to be kept away from

buttons as a child. I would press any that I

saw, so important ones did have to be out

calling a lift - so these buttons have to be

easy to use without difficulty. The adjective

You know what I think? I think it's down to

the fidgeting instinct of very digital or

manual creatures. I think we want to fidget

make them slightly better… I guess it's the

Rob: So then, why can't we resist buttons?

fidgeting instinct. We can't stay still for

Rob: The use of digital though, is nothing

to do with modern online technology, is it?

Neil: No, a digit is a finger or toe. So we

are digital creatures – we have fingers

Rob: And one thing other digital creatures

do, creatures like apes, is grooming. That

is they use their hands to clean the body

hair of other apes. They look through the

out and eat them. But we can also use the

I guess it's the grooming instinct in apes.

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Why we press buttons: 6 Minute English

obvious

instinct

present

slightly