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wysiwyg
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taps and prods
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Hello, dear colleagues! I �m working on a mc donald �s ad, and I fail to understand some words/idioms? The commercial is called "There �s a mc donald �s for eveyone", you can check it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=356doUG8OWI
I �ve searched the web to find "taps and probs", related to IT vocabulary, and haven �t found any suitable answer, even in the Urban Dictionary, and at specific computing or IT sites...
If you don �t have access to the ad:
And the IT bods
with taps and prods
eating a Big Mac
while writing their blogs
were just passing by.
Have you ever heard the phrase "taps and prods"?
Thank you for your help, have a nice weekend!
Florence
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3 Dec 2011
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wysiwyg
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Thank you Sophia, this looks interesting. 
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3 Dec 2011
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ueslteacher
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Native speakers, please, help us understand!!! Sophia |
3 Dec 2011
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Apodo
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The IT bods with their taps and prods.
This refers to them tapping and prodding at their keyboards.
It �s not a common phrase as far as I know. They just used the words that way so they �d rhyme.
I �m a native speaker.  |
3 Dec 2011
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Jayho
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I think they mean tapping and prodding the keyboard. We tap the keyboard when we type. To prod is really to poke at something and not quite what we do with a keyboard but could be understood to mean hitting the keys. So I think they really just used that word as they needed a word to rhyme with blog.
Edit: Apodo - we replied at the same time - great minds think alike |
3 Dec 2011
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wysiwyg
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Thank you very much, I had thought of tapping the keyboard, but had never heard the verb "prod". Thanks again, it �s sometimes quite tricky when you �re not a native speaker: we do our best, but we sometimes need help !
Florence
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3 Dec 2011
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yanogator
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To prod is to poke something with the purpose of motivating it, so, even as a native speaker, it doesn �t make much sense here. I �ll accept what Jayho and Apodo said, because I don �t have a better answer. Bruce |
3 Dec 2011
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ueslteacher
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I was wondering could the "prods" refer to styluses for touch screens? Sophia |
3 Dec 2011
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redcamarocruiser
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Sophia with poetic licence anything is possible, but I didnot find any reference to prodding with a stylus pen. I did see several reference to products. It makes senst that bloggers would prod their readers to buy or review products. |
3 Dec 2011
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