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- Greg Malivuk
- greg.malivuk@gmail.com
- https://pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from each class
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- “A MSc” suggests that the writer is thinking of the full word “master” when writing this phrase.
- We sometimes use Latin abbreviations that we may automatically translate into English while reading.
- e.g. = exempli gratia = “for example”
- i.e. = id est = “that is”
- PDU = professional development unit
- CEU = continuing education unit
- RSVP = Répondez s'il vous plaît = please respond
- -> noun and verb for any response to an invitation
- abbreviation = any shortening of a word or phrase (This could include things like “gov’t” for “government”.)
- initialism = an abbreviation formed with the initial letters of each (important) word
- acronym = sometimes any initialism, but more technically only those we pronounce as words
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- What are some other ways that new words show up in your or another language?
- Anglicize = to make something English (such as changing the spelling, pronunciation, or both of a foreign word to fit better with the rest of English)
- mogul, tycoon, baron - These all originally referred to a noble rank but now can be used to describe rich businesspeople.
- There are many words we pronounce “half-French”, such as entrepreneur, genre, rendezvous
- Milan
- Cairo
- Versailles
- Buena Vista
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ66wJFD3bs
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