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"Left on read"
Is "read" a past participle as an adjective here? How come an adjective comes after "on" instead of a noun? Can someone help explain? Thank you.
9. Juli 2019 12:43
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It seems to be an expression (and a concept) familiar to today’s teenagers. “Read” is the past participle, meaning that the message you sent has been “read” by the recipient. (Apps let the sender know this status.) “Left on read” means the recipient has not yet responded. Apparently, some of today’s teenagers get really upset about such things. I’m sure most of them are not that way, though. At least, I hope so.
10. Juli 2019
I agree with Phil. A lot of messaging apps have “read receipts”. On WhatsApp, you get one check mark when your message is sent, two check marks when your message is delivered to the other person (if the other person’s phone is turned off or not connected, the message stays in the server and you only get one check mark till their phone is reconnected), and blue check marks when the person reads your message. To be “left on read” means that you can tell the other person has read your message but hasn’t responded. A lot of young people nowadays interpret that as being ignored.
Some apps allow you to turn off this feature so that you don’t see when people have read your messages and they don’t see when you’ve read theirs.
10. Juli 2019
It is a modernisation of "to be left on hold" in the ancient days of telephoning it was common for a receptionist to say "I will/am putting you on hold Sir Chris Is busy with another student right now".
The receptionist would then switch a switch on the telephone exchange (a small mobile large desktop Telephone Exchange in front of her), to leave you on hold = "holding the phone". Literally until the receptionist connected you to each other with the words "Sir Chris will speak to you now".
That was yesterday, today it is all automated and digitised/digitized onto social media "message/texting apps".
So it is a logical progression and adaption your messages remain in the inbox but are not read until the recipient "reads them" or chooses to read them or not.
10. Juli 2019
I'm not sure there is a "standard" explanation.
I'm familiar with the following:
"on loan"
"on hold"
"on call"
"on leave"
"on sick leave"
"on vacation"
"on business"
The Oxford Learner's Dictionaries are an excellent resource.
on preposition
21
used to describe an activity or a state
<em>to be on business/holiday/vacation</em>
<em>The book is currently on loan.</em>
10. Juli 2019
It has been a spoken expression used a lot in Chinese society here these years for describing "To read someone's message(s) and not give any response, particularly on an instant messaging application where it is visible to any user as to whether or not the interlocutor has read a message." For example, "My boyfriend left me on read yesterday after I asked him to send me a picture of his dog, which made me very angry!" ("Quote from Wikidictionary")
I am wondering if it should originally be "left <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">(someone)</s> on (the) read <s style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">(message)</s>. Though this expression has become more common in the west. It turns out not to be this way?
10. Juli 2019
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