Computer in Use. Маркушевская Л.П - 85 стр.

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potsherd – черепок, осколок глиняной посуды
TEXT 7
Read the text and add other "smiles" that you know. What is their meaning?
COLON, DASH, BRACKET…
What are "smiles"? Any experienced computer user will find it easy to answer:
these are various signs, frequent in computer letter-writing. They consist of ordinary
punctuation marks and letters, and their basic function is to depict the speaker's
mimics. His/her grimaces, smiles, grins…
It's not that easy for a novice to read "smiles". First, one should look at
"smiles" turning the head aside. Here is an example - a widespread "smile": colon,
dash, bracket.
:-)
What's that? Turn your head and you'll see a smiling face
☺. Thus, such
"smile" in the end of the phrase means that the author of the letter is smiling.
But since you substitute the bracket with another one, the facial expression will
get quite opposite. It's not a smile any longer, but sadness, annoyance,
disappointment
…
And some more frequent smiles.
;-) a winking smile (joke)
:-D very funny
:-@ I'm shouting
8-OO, My God!
:-E an angry grin (fury)
No doubt, this is a small part of the existing "smiles". Approximately, they
number 200.
What other "smiles" do you know? What is their meaning?
WRITTEN TRANSLATION
Exercise 1.
Starting Time of Translation _____________
a) Translate the passages into Russian in writing.
1. The "real "Altair was not very impressive; it held only enough data to store the
first four lines of this paragraph. The user could not type anything with it anyway,
as it had no keyboard or monitor and no word-processing software - or any type of
software, for that matter. The user had to load each program into memory by

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