dumb, dumbing down, akin, kin

Innovation Nation at War

By JOE NOCERA

Can one federal judge put a stop to the dumb smartphone patent battles?

Facebook is under pressure to grow its advertising on a grand scale. But big brands have found they can reach a target audience at a steep discount through what's akin to word-of-mouth campaigns that spring from free Facebook pages.

Essay

Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese?

By EMILY PARKER

E-mail and cellphone novels may be making the language easier - even for the Japanese.

The concept "dumbing down" can point to a variety of different things but the concept always involves a claim about the simplification of culture, education, and thought, a decline in creativity and innovation, a degradation of artistic, cultural, and intellectual standards, or the undermining of the very idea of a standard, and the trivialisation of cultural, artistic, and academic creations.



akin
(ə-kĭn')
adj.

1. Of the same kin; related by blood.
2. Having a similar quality or character; analogous.
3. Linguistics. Sharing a common origin or an ancestral form.

kin

[名]

1 [U]((集合的に複数扱い))親族, 親類

blood kin
親族.

2 [U]((まれ))血族［親族, 姻戚］関係；((古))一族, 一門

be of kin to ...
…と親戚である；…と似ている.

3 親類の者

his next of kin
((形式))彼の最近親者（たち）（▼単数・複数扱い）.

4 同類の人［物］, 同質.

━━[形]((叙述))（…の）親族で；同類［同質］で((to ...))

more kin than kind
血は通っても心は通わぬ〈Shak. Ham I. ii. 65〉

feel kin to ...
…に親近感をいだく.

［古英cynn. 原義は「種族」. △GENUS, KIND²］

dumb

[形]（〜・er, 〜・est）1 言語能力を失った, 口のきけない. ⇒MUTE[名][形] dumb animalsもの言えぬ動物たち the dumb millions政治に発言権のない大...

dumb down

〈教材などを〉レベルを落としてやさしくする.