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- Greg Malivuk
- https://pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes (This is BWH Group 2)
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- lexicographer = someone who writes about words (more specifically, someone who writes dictionaries)
- (words with “lex”: lexis, lexicon, lexical, dyslexia)
- (words with “ographer”: photographer, biographer, choreographer, geographer)
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- https://www.wordnik.com/about - A dictionary that collects any new words or new uses of old words that people find.
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- Vocabulary: which word is closest in meaning to the words in bold?
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- portmanteau = a blend word, like “camcorder” for “camera” + “recorder”, or “smog” for “smoke”+“fog”
- (In a compound, both words are still completely present, in a portmanteau, one or both words have lost parts.)
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- “We verb many nouns in English. We can also noun adjectives.”
- Ways to make new English words:
- 1 blend (brunch)
- 2 copy from other languages (tamale - which is also kind of a back-formation)
- 3 back-formation (edit)
- 4 compounding (heartbroken, mailbox)
- 5 functional change = changing parts of speech (“friend” as a verb), with or without changing the form
- (other verbs: phone, cup, table, chair, book, pen, pencil, light, screen, mouse, key, wall, mirror)
- 6 acronyms (NASA, UNICEF) and other initialisms (omg, CIA, BWH)
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- Besides copying from other languages (which every language does), which other types of words do you know about in your language?
- overwhelming / underwhelming / ?whelming
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- BREAK
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- https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/best-clam-chowder-in-boston/
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- What are family get-together holidays in your country?
- https://embed.ly/extract - To see the text of a site that hides it behind a paywall or an ad-blocker-blocker.
- https://www.ladbible.com/community/interesting-why-japanese-people-traditionally-eat-kfc-on-christmas-20171224
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