Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Born To Run: Mrs. Brightwell and Lazy Words...


The following quote is from chapter one of Born to Run.


"Mrs Brightwell...was always on at Patrick about...using what she called "lazy words", such as 'cool' or 'wicked', or worst of all, 'whatever'."

Explain in your own words what Mrs. Brightwell means by lazy words.  Come up with a list of six other "lazy words" that you or people you  know sometimes use.

Don't forget to include your name when you post.  And of course, your spelling must be "wicked".  If it isn't, then that isn't "cool"...

31 comments:

  1. Rad,sweet,awesome,sure,dude,sick. Mrs.Brightwell means that lazy words are lazy and wierd.Cole

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  2. I think what Mrs. Brightwell means by “lazy words “ are what people that think they’re “cool”.
    • Epic
    • Dude
    • Radical
    • Wicked
    • Buddsers
    • Cool
    • Whatever
    • Who cares
    • Awesome

    Jake

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  3. I think what she means by lazy words is maybe they’re not good vocabulary words and they might not make much sense to some people. Some other lazy words could be sweet, awesome, amazing, funky, totally and wild. those are some lazy words that I totally don’t think Mrs. Bright well would like. Carly

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  4. sure,yeah,ofcourse,so,kk,yep..... kobe

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  5. What I think Mrs. Brightwell means by ‘’lazy words’’ is words that usually teenagers would use. These are words that have a better word for usually. These include:
    • Stoked
    • Epic
    • Siked
    • Awesome
    • Sweet
    • Radical
    • Dude
    • Man
    (NOTE: epic, awesome and man have another meaning other then what they are known for. E.G. Man means ‘’buddy‘’)
    ~Hannah

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  6. Ms. Brightwell hates all words that people say are “cool” and can be “wicked” to say. Most kids don’t “care” about this and say “whatever”.
    Some words I made up are “yo” and “um” and “fine” and “epic” and “pwn” and “sup” and “dude” and “boomage” and “like” and even “yeah”.

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  7. Mrs.Brighwell means that she doesn’t want students saying those words because they sound bad.
    Some words I came up with are…
    Like
    Totally
    Yo
    Sup
    Don’t care
    so

    Rebecca

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  8. Some words that I think are lazy words are…
    Fail
    Sweet
    Cool
    Like (in the way of when teenage girls use it in between every word)
    Wicked
    Dude
    (Also phrases: Epic Fail)

    Lena

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  9. I think it means that are use a lot and are boring. Some more lazy words are cool, awesome, epic, fail, weird and crazy. Hope you don’t use lazy words. Branden

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  10. Ms. Brightwell hates all words that people say are “cool” and can be “wicked” to say. Most kids don’t “care” about this and say “whatever”.
    Some words I made up are “yo” and “um” and “fine” and “epic” and “pwn” and “sup” and “dude” and “boomage” and “like” and even “yeah”.



    Ryan

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  11. I think that Mrs. brightwell means by lazy words is like some kid thinks there hip or cool.
    -fail
    -epic
    -sup
    -whatever
    -whats up
    -skill
    -loser
    Connor.

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  12. I think Ms. Brightwell when she say the term “lazy words” it means words people might use to often or words that she doesn’t like to hear people using. Words like sup, yo, cool, what ev, wicked and sweet are what she calls lazy words. Anika. :)

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  13. I think that what Mrs. Brightwell means is that words like cool and wicked aren’t very interesting. Some of the lazy words I came up with were…..
    Epic
    Rad
    Sweet
    Awesome
    Stoked
    Who cares?

    Martin

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  14. I think Mrs. Brightwell means that “lazy words” are words with no description and that are not interesting because I personally think those words are not interesting at all.
    1.Awesome
    2.Radical
    3.Sweet
    4.Pwned
    5.Epic
    6.Dude

    JP

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  15. I think when Mrs. Bright Well means “Lazy Words” she means words like
    • Cool
    • Whaz up
    • FYI
    • Sup
    • Epic
    • OMG
    • Whatever

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  16. A few lazy word that Mrs. Brightwell would hate is Who cares
    Boring
    Huh
    Fail
    Lazy
    epic
    Jordan.M

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  17. think when Mrs. Bright Well means “Lazy Words” she means words like
    • Cool
    • What’s up
    • FYI
    • Sup
    • Epic
    • OMG
    • Whatever
    Simmy

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  18. What I think Mrs. bright well thinks of lazy words is when people use words that are lazy and really boring like these ones.

    1 epic fail
    2 sup
    3 cool
    4 peace out
    5 yo
    6 skills by jadenn

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  19. I think that what Mrs. Brightwell doesn’t let the student use the word because that sound really bad, I came up with these words like
    Fail
    Epic
    Cool
    Awesome
    Crazy
    Dude
    Aastha cc

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  20. I think Mrs. Brighwell means lazy words are words that don’t describe things very well. Some words I think are: cool, weird, bad, fail, sweet, sad, and dude. Rielle

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  21. “Lazy words” are words that people use to try to fill in spaces in their senteces where there are no spaces to be filled in.
    My lazy words
    1.Sweet
    2.Like (as in “Like what’s up with her”)
    3. Yo
    4.Ponage
    5.Man (as in “that’s totally awesome man!”)
    6.Wicked (as in “Wicked Man!)

    Emily

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  22. I think what she means by lazy words is that you could use better describing words.
    Other lazy words are:
    • Awesome (not the really long poem)
    • Epic (like “That was epic”)
    • Stoked
    • Ran
    • Nice
    • Fun

    Lindsay

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  23. Mrs Brightwell means by lazy words that those words aren’t very interesting
    1)Rad
    2) sure
    3)sick
    4)um
    5)sup
    6) omg
    Josh

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  24. Mrs. Brightwell means that people use “lazy words” just because they can’t find any words to fill in the space, or it is just a habit they can’t break, and sometimes it’s an abbreviation for actual words. Mrs. Brightwell doesn’t like “lazy words” because you are not using proper grammar or you could find a better word.
    Some lazy words: like, yo, s’ up, sure, F. Y. I (for your information), see’ ya
    Catherine

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  25. I think Mrs.Brightwell means lazy words such as
    .sick
    .wicked
    .whatever
    .sweet
    .sup
    .skilled
    .serially
    Jacob.

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  26. I think when Mrs. Brightwell says “Lazy Words” she means “Slangs” kind of like short formed words, Mrs. Brightwell finds those annoying.
    1)Sup
    2)K
    3)rad
    4)yo
    5)Like
    6)Lol
    Lindsey

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  27. I think these are some more lazy words.
    Nice
    Cool
    Sup
    Yo

    Autumn

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  28. I think what Miss Bright well mean by the word such as:
    LOL (laugh out loud)
    OMG (oh my god)
    Tense
    Awesome
    Bro
    What‘s up

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  29. LOL (laugh out loud)
    OMG (oh my god)
    Tense
    Awesome
    Bro
    What‘s up
    Halle

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  30. Some lazy words are.
    1. Cool.
    2. Dude.
    3. Sweet.
    4. Bro.
    5. Whatever.
    6. Wicked.
    Ben

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  31. My six words I think she will hate are:
    1)Epic
    2)So
    3)Fail
    4)Whatever
    5)Slang words
    6)Dude

    Jayden

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