shrug-inducing?

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Leopard's iChat improvements sound incredible, while Dashboard upgrades are pretty shrug-inducing. What's the meaning of "shrug-inducing"?

Marius Hancu · Accepted Answer

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shrug

1 : a drawing up of the shoulders usually to express indifference

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Shrug-inducing improvements: people are indifferent at them or wonder if they are worth anything

Just like: "Well/OK, so what?"

Ipodmini · Answer

Thanks!

Does that mean that the upgrades are not as facinating as the original products, or people do not feel the same amount of ethusiastism towards the upgrades , thus they will not upgrade their products?

From answer.com

A shrug is a form of nonverbal communication that is performed by lifting both shoulders up, and is an indication of an individual either (1)not knowing an answer to a question, or (2)not caring about a result. It may be accentuated with raised eyebrows and/or an exaggerated frown. Shrugging is derived from the act of weighing two objects in one's hands, a process instinctively used by humans to compare weight based on which object requires more normal force from one's hand to accelerate upward against gravity. Since a shrug indicates that the subject does not know the answer to a question, it would imply that they were weighing the matter between their hands. A shrug merely involving the shoulders is a lazy form of the full shrug, which involves both shoulders and hands with palms facing upward.

I guess "shrug inducing" means "when asked about their opinions to the upgrade, the customers tend to give a shurg.

Arvsworld · Answer

The Shrug (the raising of both shoulders) is used to physically express the following statements:

- I don't know.

- I don't care.

- Oh, well. (This is a verbal expression for, "You can't do anything about it.")

The idea behind your example is that the upgrades are terribly difficult to install and use. This would initially mean "I don't know." And after some time, of trying to use or install the upgrades unsuccessully, you might say "I don't care!" Until finally, you would use the Shrug to express all three statements at one time.

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