0
Nithila Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Could you give meaning in simple way ?

The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."

here, what does "scratching our heads and saying" means?
  

Top answer

"scratching one's head" means pondering or puzzling about something -- like when you're given a difficult problem that you don't know how to solve. So, the author means that people weren't puzzling about the difficulty of sending such a message, and weren't concerned about how they might do it. "saying" roughly has the usual meaning, but it doesn't necessarily mean that people were literally speaking these words.

— Mr Wordy

  • "scratching one's head" means pondering or puzzling about something -- like when you're given a difficult problem that you don't know how to solve.
  • So, the author means that people weren't puzzling about the difficulty of sending such a message, and weren't concerned about how they might do it.
  • "saying" roughly has the usual meaning, but it doesn't necessarily mean that people were literally speaking these words.
  • It just means that they had (or in this case didn't have) this thought in their minds, which they might have spoken in one way or another.
Free · every Monday

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.

1 Answers
0
"scratching one's head" means pondering or puzzling about something -- like when you're given a difficult problem that you don't know how to solve. So, the author means that people weren't puzzling about the difficulty of sending such a message, and weren't concerned about how they might do it.

"saying" roughly has the usual meaning, but it doesn't necessarily mean that people were liter
0

Related Questions