- 1簡訊/聊天室用語:用數字 8 代替 ate、eat、ait 的音(如 gr8=great)。不是正式寫法。
In emails and text messages, people sometimes put the number 8 inside a word because it sounds like “ate,” “eat,” or “ait.” So great becomes gr8, later becomes l8r, hate becomes h8, wait becomes w8. It is playful, very informal spelling — fine with friends, never in school work or a formal letter. Though actually this was much more common when phone messages were short and each letter cost money; a lot of younger people now find it a bit 2000s, like an old joke. The digit is standing in for a sound, not for the number eight.
在電子郵件和簡訊裡,人們有時會把數字 8 放在字裡面,因為它的發音像「ate」、「eat」或「ait」。例如 great 寫成 gr8,later 寫成 l8r,hate 寫成 h8,wait 寫成 w8。這種寫法很俏皮,也很口語,和朋友聊天可以用,但作業或正式信件絕對不行。以前手機簡訊很短、每個字都要錢的時候比較常見,現在年輕人覺得它有點像 2000 年代的老梗。要記住,這裡的 8 代表的是發音,不是數字八的意思。
組成The digit is used because its English name, “eight,” sounds like those endings. It is not a word built from smaller English pieces.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
- ate
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。