Hi, I'm Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show. Today we're studying a video from The Onion called: New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products. This is a parody news story, by the way, in case you're not familiar with The Onion, and they're announcing Apple's new Friend Bars. Apple actually has something called a Genius Bar – in the United States anyway, I don't know if it's in any other countries - where you can make a reservation with a "genius" who will talk to you about your computer. So I guess "genius" is just their fancy name for a sales assistant or a customer services person. And they'll talk to you and give you some advice and then encourage you to buy more stuff. And this video is making a joke about the stereotypical Mac user who is obsessive about their computer and about Apple products and they annoy shop workers and their friends with very boring one-sided conversations.
So this Friend Bar will have staff who are specially trained to listen to these Apple fans.They say the employees are: specially trained to carry on lengthy conversations about even the most arcane Apple-related topics.
Arcane is an adjective which means: understood by few or mysterious .
The reporter says the bar is for Apple users who are: looking for someone to talk at.
If you have a normal conversation, you talk to someone. But if the conversation is one-sided, if you're just rambling on about stuff that is only of interest to you and you have no intention of ever letting the other person speak, then you're talking at someone. STICK NEWS Kia ora in Stick News today a man in New York has sued Facebook and says that he owns 84% of the company.
Facebook was launched in 2004 and is now the biggest social networking site in the world. A guy called Paul is suing Facebook. He claims that a contract he signed in 2003 entitles him to 84% of the company. A Facebook spokesperson says they believe the suit is frivolous.
And that was Stick News for Thursday the 15th of July.Kia ora.
Word of the Day Today's word is infinitely . Infinitely is an adverb which means: very much . And it's often used in comparisons, and the example here is: Your English is infinitely better than my German. And that is definitely true because I only know about five words of German.
In today's video they give this example of something that Apple users like to talk about: Why Safari is an infinitely better browser than Firefox. conversations with sarah #793 How was the movie? Step 1: Repeat Thomas's lines .Step 2: Read Thomas's lines and talk to Sarah. Thomas How was the movie? Sarah Hmm. Thomas That bad, huh? Sarah No, it wasn't terrible. I enjoyed bits of it. It was quite funny in places. Thomas But you've seen better? Sarah Yeah. It … wasn't the greatest move I've ever seen. Thomas What was it about? Sarah It was basically about three guys and their relationships with women.
Questions mysterious arch arcane archaic the inner side of the foot archive architecture arch very old or old-fashioned archaic architecture archive the art and study of designing buildings architecture archive archaic a collection of historical documents or records archive arcane arch links Watch today's show at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XhuUAQJcmg http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/2010_07_15_archive.html
