Are you someone who practically lives in front of the computer—a mouse potato? Or are you nervous about new technology—a technophobe? __31__, if you want to master the English language, you will need to be __32__ those new computer words that seem to be popping up everywhere.
Luckily, most computer words are easy to learn. __33__, many of these words probably already have similar forms in your own language. __34__, the German word for computer is Computer, in South American Spanish it is computador, and in Japanese we __35__ konpyuta.
Another reason why computer words are easy to learn is that many of them are so__36__. They are words that often make us smile when we first hear them such as __37__ (traditional mail rather than Internet-based mail) or wysiwyg (what-you-see-is-what-you-get).
To get a feeling for computer words, it helps to __38__ the world that created them— cyberculture, as it is often called. The computer industry is __39__ young people who think of themselves as very different from __40__ business people in suits. It is a world that avoids heavy scientific-sounding language in favor of words that are simple, fresh and playful.
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