2020-09-29 BWH group 2

Greg Malivuk
greg.malivuk@gmail.com
https://pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes (This is BWH Group 2)
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uneventful

textspeak = abbreviations and acronyms like “lol”, “brb”, “asap”

It’s a double edged sword. / It cuts both ways.
	= It can help or hurt in both directions.
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Compound nouns are most recognizable when they’re written together as one word (sunset, mailbox, bookshelf, schoolyard, bedroom, bookstore), but in English this is not generally necessary (English class, computer screen, web browser, grocery store).

There’s also not a strict limit to how many nouns can be in one compound.
grocery store checkout line
mailbox = a box for mail
mailbox key = a key for a mailbox
mailbox key box = a box for a mailbox key
mailbox key box key = a key for that box, because you want to protect your mailbox key
(etc.)

father-in-law - I would say this is a compound word, which is a noun, but it’s not what I would teach as a compound noun.
My morning student is an eleven-year-old boy. - compound adjective / compound modifier
My morning student is an eleven-year-old. - hyphenated compound noun
	(Hyphens are more common if there’s a phrase or a number or something else other than just another noun.)
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father
grandfather
great-grandfather
great-great-grandfather
great-great-great-grandfather
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Listen to the podcast. Which of the two competing ideas do you agree with more?
😂😭😍🙏🤣👍😊😶🙃 - I see the use of these because they represent body language.
🍷🍺🚜🕛🕧🕐🕜🕑🕝🕒🕞...🕦 - Why do we need emoji for every time on a clock?
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When we pronounce compound nouns, the strongest stress is at the beginning.
mailbox
bedroom
bookstore
English class
We can distinguish between compound nouns and similar-looking adjective+noun pairs:
I have an English teacher. = I have a teacher of English (the language).
I don’t have an English teacher. = I don’t have a teacher who is English (the nationality).

orange bowl = bowl for oranges
orange bowl = a bowl that’s colored orange
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If something is moving or changing, we would often use “into” or “onto” or “to”.
If something is static, we might use “in” or “on”.

If we can use “in” or “on” for movement, then we can also probably use “into” or “onto”:
Get in the car. = Get into the car.
I got on the bus. = I got onto the bus.

The caterpillar changed into a butterfly.

She walked in the garden. = The location of her (entire) walk was inside the garden.
She walked into the garden. = She entered the garden (on foot).
(We can do the same with “on” and “onto”, for example with “the bridge”.)
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Something can be on a “surface” or “platform” and in a “container”, but in many cases it can be hard to predict which of those we imagine.

You can see something on TV, on the radio, on the Internet, on Facebook.
You can see something in a book, in a newspaper, in an article.
(For many of these you’ll just need to try to memorize the correct preposition.)

Sometimes the logic for which preposition to use is different between the US and the UK:
	American English: on the weekend (specific days get “on”, like “on Christmas” or “on Tuesday”)
	British English: at the weekend (it’s at the end of the week -> at the weekend)
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Betty bought a bit of butter,
but her butter made her batter bitter,
so Betty bought a bit of better butter
to make her bitter batter better.

Rural parallel roads make me really leery.
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I think of the ‘p’ in “pot” and “spot” as the same sound, but there are many languages that consider these two different sounds.
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E-mail -> email
E-sports / e-sports -> esports (To me this always looks like a Spanish accent pronouncing “sports”.)
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shoe / chew
sheep / cheap
ship / chip
	- You can ship cheap sheep chips on a cheap sheep chip ship.
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Are there new words in your language that didn’t exist when you were a child?
(In English, for example, “Google” as a verb is new.)