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what does this actualy mean?

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bubu
 
Reply Sun 5 Mar, 2006 04:35 am
Hello!!

Can the word 'parrot' as a verb mean cram something.

Can we say "the students only parroted the answer".
[the teacher asked them a question and they answered the question just by what they had memorised without understanding a word of it]

Thank you
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Sun 5 Mar, 2006 06:53 am
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Can the word 'parrot' as a verb mean cram something.


Not cram something. To "parrot" means to repeat something by rote, without any real understanding. The reference is to the parrot, a bird who can be trained to make human like vocalizations, without knowing what he is saying.
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Noddy24
 
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Reply Sun 5 Mar, 2006 08:27 am
Phoenix--

Recent research shows that parrots may have a purposeful vocabulary--except, of course, in figures of speech.

I agree about "cram".
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