When might a word be considered "uncool" to use any longer, and why? 2. As a class, read and discuss the article "2004: In a Word" (//www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20041227monday.html), focusing on the following questions: a.
Being a bookworm is uncool, the story alleges, but carrying around an e-reader makes reading seem chic".Strangers constantly ask about it," Michael Hughes, a communications associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, said of his iPad, which he uses to read a mix of novels and nonfiction.
And if anything, the worst thing about Goody's is a sign that reads "ROCK THAT BURGER," which is uncool for the same reasons Kmart surfwear is uncool.
"We keep reading minivan obituaries and hearing how uncool they are, but there are still more than a million being sold each year," said Bryan Zvibleman, a spokesman for Chrysler, which has dominated the market since introducing the Dodge Caravan two decades ago.
They have a gospel duo, the Welcome Wagon, whose press release reads: "Vito and his wife are unabashedly Midwestern, ordinary and uncool".
Presented by Anne Fine, almost as though she was reading a Blyton story, the programme made a few excellent points about the now uncool Famous Five creator.
I grew up reading music writers like Steve Allen's reviews of the Beatles and he'd say horribly uncool things like, 'These cats were really groovy,' and we used to laugh it off.
You'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant".
You'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant.
