{"id":2893,"date":"2020-06-08T21:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2021-05-09T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T09:02:04","slug":"phrasal-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/phrasal-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexically Speaking: Phrasal Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2893\" class=\"elementor elementor-2893\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-559014b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"559014b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c17a264\" data-id=\"c17a264\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-270dc6d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"270dc6d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiang Mai, Thailand, at some ungodly hour a.m. and I\u2019m fresh off an overnight bus. It\u2019s mid-November, at the start of the Yi Peng lantern festival, and the tourists are taking over. I\u2019m sitting at an outdoor cafe, staring a hole in my coffee while contemplating the state of my individually-wrapped 7-Eleven banana which, like me, has made the long trip from Bangkok.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something catches my attention\u2014American English, as spoken by two twenty-something females, probably from California.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m gonna go with \u2026 \u201c She trails off, her eyes still scanning the menu. The waiter looks perplexed.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe can\u2019t be serious,\u201d I think to myself. \u201cDoes she really think this Thai waiter is going to understand what \u2018I\u2019m gonna go with\u2019 means?\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c&#8230; the banana pancakes.\u201d Better\u2014words he can make sense of. Thank God for context. Her friend takes over.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLet me go with \u2026 \u201c She too seems to be in mid-decision. The waiter, I imagine, has tuned out the gibberish and is waiting for information he can process.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c \u2026 the muesli.\u201d Eureka! We have an order.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flash forward a few years and back several time zones to Peru. A middle-aged American man is talking to his local guide about what to wear on a hike.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo, it gets pretty chilly up there? You think we need to layer up?\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Layer up. I had never heard anyone say that before, yet, as a native English speaker, I immediately knew what he meant\u2014to dress in layers. The guide, however, being a non-native English speaker, was clearly unable to understand this Columbia-clad gringo\u2019s lingo. So why am I telling you this, and how does it relate to UX?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Depending on the product, many of your users may be non-native speakers. If you know this to be the case, you may want to adjust your language to accommodate that segment of the audience. The way we communicate with non-native speakers may be different from how we communicate with native speakers, something my compatriots in Thailand and Peru didn\u2019t understand.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my experience\u2014which includes spending about half of my adult life abroad and a stint teaching English as a foreign language\u2014phrasal verbs often trip up non-native speakers. So in this article, I\u2019d like to look at phrasal verbs in more depth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll not only cover how they affect clarity for the non-native audience but also how they can influence your copy\u2019s tone of voice. Stick around to the end, and I\u2019ll even let you know what happened to my Bangkok bus banana, which suddenly sounds kind of dirty. 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data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05b89e3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"05b89e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What are phrasal verbs?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b702876 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b702876\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f13e7ff\" data-id=\"f13e7ff\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97f4c04 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"97f4c04\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a bit of an oversimplification, but for our purposes we can think of them as <\/span><b>the combination of a verb and a preposition that makes a new verb<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a meaning that is often unrelated to the original verb. In the second sentence of this article, I wrote, \u201ctourists are taking over.\u201d \u201cTo take over\u201d is a phrasal verb meaning to assume control or possession of something\u2014very different from the literal meanings of \u201ctake\u201d and \u201cover.\u201d <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also wrote that the waiter \u201ctuned out\u201d the customers, meaning he ignored what they were saying\u2014a far cry from tuning a violin or an engine. And I\u2019ve used a few others here so far like \u201ctrail off\u201d and \u201ctrip up.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A further difficulty is that, like other verbs, phrasals often have multiple meanings which may not have any obvious relation. Above, I used \u201ctake over\u201d a second time in the sentence, \u201cHer friend takes over.\u201d <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, \u201ctake over\u201d doesn\u2019t mean to take control of, but rather to start doing what someone else was doing. The same is true for the verb our California girls used to order breakfast, \u201cto go with.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can think of the phrasal verb \u201cto go with\u201d as having a spectrum of meaning. This is from the MacMillan Dictionary:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><ol><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to be provided or offered together with something (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">car<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> go with the <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">job<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?)<\/span><\/i><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to exist frequently with something <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(A fair amount of stress seems to go with jobs like this.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to seem good, natural, or attractive in combination with something (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shoes<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> go <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">best<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with this <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dress<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to choose or accept something (<i>I <\/i><i>think<\/i><i> we should go with <\/i><i>yellow<\/i><i> for the <\/i><i>walls<\/i><i>.<\/i>)<\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ad740cf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ad740cf\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f02cb4\" data-id=\"4f02cb4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d16de7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6d16de7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"718\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image4.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2902\" alt=\"banana pancakes in thailand\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image4.png 718w, https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image4-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-84b7db1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"84b7db1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1880702\" data-id=\"1880702\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c938add elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c938add\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using \u201cgo with\u201d to mean \u201cchoose\u201d is pretty abstract\u2014you can see why \u201cgoing with banana pancakes\u201d would be difficult for many non-native speakers. Another complication is that \u201cgo with\u201d doesn\u2019t have to be a phrasal verb. Those two words together can still have their literal meaning where \u201cgo\u201d is the verb, and \u201cwith\u201d is a normal preposition. \u201cI\u2019ll go with Steve\u201d can just mean that I will physically locomote myself and remain in Steve\u2019s general vicinity.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A final complication is that English speakers often make up new phrasal verbs on the fly as in \u201clayer up.\u201d A similar and timely example I recently came across is \u201cmask up,\u201d as in \u201cto don a mask.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-21f6e9e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"21f6e9e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5c1caac\" data-id=\"5c1caac\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-029aa41 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"029aa41\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Don't give up<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-23806ae elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"23806ae\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-162ee9c\" data-id=\"162ee9c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0d797cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0d797cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this point, if you\u2019re saying to yourself, \u201cOh man, phrasal verbs are a jerk. I\u2019m just never going to use them ever, ever again\u201d well, that\u2019s not going to work. Phrasal verbs are simply a part of the language\u2014they are unavoidable.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a UXer, you\u2019ve likely considered the great sign in\/sign up\/sign out\/log in\/log on\/log off debate. (Notice there\u2019s no log up?) I\u2019m not going to get into this issue, but I will say this. In addition to the phrasal \u201csigns\u201d above, in English, you can also sign off (end a message), sign on (agree to participate), and sign off on (give official approval). You see how that\u2019s confusing?<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OK, so we can\u2019t avoid them, but I believe we can build a strategy that will help us decide which to use and when, making things easier for non-native speakers and also affording us more control over our tone of voice. So let\u2019s do that.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I like to think of phrasal verbs as having three characteristics we can use to gauge if and when to use them: frequency, formality, and abstractness. Think of them as three sliding scales:<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frequently used &lt;&#8212;&gt; Rarely used<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formal tone &lt;&#8212;&gt; Informal tone<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concrete &lt;&#8212;&gt; Abstract<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Placing a phrasal verb on these scales allows me to develop a clear understanding and, hopefully, make a good decision about using it or not.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3c2990a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3c2990a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d994805\" data-id=\"d994805\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38b1c00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"38b1c00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Frequency<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fbb7da4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fbb7da4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-47bd369\" data-id=\"47bd369\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41d0f85 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41d0f85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phrasal verbs started to show up in Middle English and then exploded in Early Modern English. Today, some are so common that their levels of abstractness and formality are irrelevant. These are words like: turn on, turn off, put on, take off, give up, or put away. For some of them, there\u2019s really no other reasonable way to express the action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou there! Make your computer begin to function!\u201d See? That\u2019s never going to work\u2014you just turn it on.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With phrasal verbs like these, the onus is on the non-native speaker to know them. If your user can\u2019t understand, \u201cTurn the TV off, put your hat on, pick up your keys, and let\u2019s go!\u201d there\u2019s nothing you can do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for the most common phrasal verbs, there\u2019s not much to consider\u2014you have to use them, unless you want to sound like an alien.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For other phrasal verbs, you may want to check their frequency. A Google search with quotation marks should do the trick. You can compare them to one another to get a sense of how frequently they\u2019re used. Here are some examples:<\/span><\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phrasal verb (infinitive form)<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Google results<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To find out<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1,680,000,000<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To look for<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">512,000,000<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To turn on<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">336,000,000<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To speed up<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">59,900,000\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To throw away<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">17,200,000<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To beef up<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5,200,000<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To mull over<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">851,000<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To clam up<\/span><\/p><\/td><td><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">69,500<\/span><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not an exact science, but you can get a general idea of frequency this way. Obviously, the higher the frequency, the more likely non-natives are to know it, and the less you have to worry about using it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the other hand, while \u201cclam up\u201d can be an expressive way to communicate a hesitancy to speak, it might be best to avoid using it in an interface.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One more thing to consider regarding frequency is primary vs. other meanings. Remember, phrasals often have multiple meanings where one may be common and others less so. \u201cTo work out\u201d has 160,000,000 results on Google. But how many are for exercising vs. solving a problem vs. coming to a successful end? Google won\u2019t help you with that.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6bc6c20 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6bc6c20\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31c45a1\" data-id=\"31c45a1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-87f8e91 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"87f8e91\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Formality<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1322bf5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1322bf5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-416c3b3\" data-id=\"416c3b3\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82ee7e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"82ee7e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In general, phrasals carry an informal tone\u2014but not always. The higher frequency ones are more likely to have a neutral tone. On the other end of the scale, we have phrasal verbs that sound slangy\u2014things like chill out, hit up, freak out, etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So depending on the tone of the product you\u2019re working on, you can use phrasal verbs accordingly. Here are two examples from this very article where I did or didn&#8217;t use a phrasal to influence the tone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wrote that phrasals are \u201clikely to trip up non-native speakers.\u201d I could have said confuse, be difficult for, etc., but I went with \u201ctrip up\u201d because it matches the tone of this article, which is pretty informal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, when I was defining what \u201cmask up\u201d means, I didn\u2019t write \u201cto put on a mask\u201d but instead used the more formal \u201cdon.\u201d Even though this article has an informal tone, in this instance, I was giving a formal definition, so I used the more formal word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><b>Side note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> phrasals can also help us vary our vocabulary. In the previous paragraph, when talking about my word choices, I first used \u201cwent with\u201d and then \u201cused\u201d just for the sake of variety. And if you&#8217;re saying, \u201cWow, this article is getting pretty meta,\u201d I guess you&#8217;re right\u2014I\u2019m just trying to \u201cmeta up\u201d the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a4060d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1a4060d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9053551\" data-id=\"9053551\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ead4a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3ead4a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Abstractness<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-614a858 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"614a858\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cc0e64f\" data-id=\"cc0e64f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1259bcc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1259bcc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phrasal verbs are by their very nature abstract and metaphoric. Some more than others, though. I can put a pen on a table\u2014the literal, non-phrasal meaning. I can also literally put a hat on my head, and if I do, chances are I\u2019m wearing it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From here, it\u2019s easy to see how we got to putting on a sweater and then eventually \u201cto put on\u201d just means to don or start wearing any article of clothing. Not so abstract and not so hard for English learners to understand. But most phrasals aren\u2019t that straight forward.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider \u201cturn up.\u201d Sure, its most common usage, to increase volume, is fairly concrete. Radios once had knobs that you physically turned to adjust the volume, and up for increase and down for decrease makes good metaphoric sense.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But when \u201cturn up\u201d means to appear, arrive, or be found, the semantic connection isn\u2019t clear. And a lack of semantic connection is common in phrasal verbs: put up with (tolerate), get over (recover), or pull off (succeed in doing something difficult).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when considering whether non-native speakers will understand a phrasal, think about how far removed the meaning is from the verb alone. \u201cTo pick out\u201d is pretty clear\u2014&#8221;pick&#8221; is like &#8220;choose&#8221; and \u201cout\u201d could metaphorically represent distinction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet \u201cto pick over,\u201d meaning to closely inspect a group of objects before choosing one, is less clear. Sure, the concept of choosing is still in there, but this meaning has an extra layer of abstractness, making it harder to conceptualize for the non-native speaker.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2270791 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2270791\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9308652\" data-id=\"9308652\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-028f7b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"028f7b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Putting it all together<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-980a770 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"980a770\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43998f5\" data-id=\"43998f5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a7d10f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2a7d10f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s stick with \u201cpick out\u201d versus \u201cpick over.\u201d The former is used frequently (18,900,000 results), has a neutral tone, and isn\u2019t terribly abstract. I\u2019d say \u201cpick out\u201d is fine to use in an interface with a large non-native audience. \u201cPick over,\u201d however, has a low frequency (127,000 results), still has a neutral tone (maybe slightly more informal), but is pretty abstract. I\u2019d say, skip over \u201cpick over.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wanted to test things out a bit with a real live non-native English speaker. Luckily, I happen to have a friend and colleague who fits the bill. I found this example online: <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-34782c7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"34782c7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7e8a3c8\" data-id=\"7e8a3c8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b511ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5b511ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"681\" height=\"227\" src=\"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image2.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2903\" alt=\"Whip up phrasal verb example\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image2.png 681w, https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image2-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e192bb6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e192bb6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-802d618\" data-id=\"802d618\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d97b0b7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d97b0b7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turns out that, though he was able to make Cool Whip Family Guy jokes, he did not know what \u201cto whip up\u201d meant. And that\u2019s a problem. <\/span><b>If you\u2019ve got a big ol\u2019 headline up there, but your audience can\u2019t understand it, that\u2019s a lot of clicks you\u2019ll be losing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d4b07fd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d4b07fd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a69ae7\" data-id=\"6a69ae7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-836b013 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"836b013\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Summing up<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8c828ef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8c828ef\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e00defb\" data-id=\"e00defb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53d1ada elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"53d1ada\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many content creators and digital products set a reading level for their copy. This can be good practice and a 7th-grade reading level gets thrown around a lot. However, setting the reading level won&#8217;t solve your phrasal problems. Phrasal verbs and other common idiomatic expressions may well suit a 7th-grade reading level, yet their more literal and higher reading level equivalents may be easier for non-native speakers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine you\u2019re giving pilot lessons to your nephew who\u2019s in 7th grade (hey, you never know). You tell him, \u201cPull up!\u201d He knows what you mean. Now imagine it\u2019s your Peruvian tour guide. When you tell him to pull up, he just looks at you funny, but when you change it to \u201cincrease the altitude,\u201d it\u2019s clear.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no one, simple solution to which phrasal verbs to use, when, and with whom. But if you consider the frequency, formality, and abstractness, you\u2019ll at least have somewhere to start. That, or just ask your foreign friends \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, a promise is a promise. You\u2019ve made it to the end, so here is the banana that made the long bus ride from Bangkok to Chiang Mai.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50fbcac elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50fbcac\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d784ae1\" data-id=\"d784ae1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1f22ab9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1f22ab9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"393\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2904\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image1.png 393w, https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image1-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/uxwritinghub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/image1-24x24.png 24w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-353c758 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"353c758\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f2cc3cd\" data-id=\"f2cc3cd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0a846ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0a846ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This banana is a great representation of how I felt that morning\u2014bruised and slimy. Lucky for me, I had a travel companion who persuaded me that this glistening beauty was best left uneaten.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bda74e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bda74e3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4593ec9\" data-id=\"4593ec9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8939157 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8939157\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Till next time, signing off.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phrasal verbs often trip up non-native speakers. 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