New Words

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New Words

• Kerry Maxwell

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1. Language change in the noughties

• An exciting time to be teaching language change
  why?
• The Web!
• Huge
• Global
• metrosexual ? metrosessuale, metroseksueel
• Dynamic

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2. Language change in society

• As society changes, language changes.
• Technology
• dial-up
• broadband, WiFi
• podcast
• Leisure
• free running, zorbing, tombstoning
• blog
• tanorexic/tanorexia

• 3. The Environment
• green?
• footprint
• carbon, reduce, calculator
• climate canary
• 4. Politics
• electoral cleansing

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3. Creating New words

• Brand-spanking new?
• sandwich
• google (verb)
• stepford (adjective)
• Word formation principles
• use existing forms creatively
• recognizable spelling, pronunciation, meaning
• survival of the fittest

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4. Re-use, recycle

• web, surf, virus, window
• Conversion
• text (verb), embed (noun)
• Core senses?
• browse, browser
• bump (someone) off
• 1. kill 2. break Internet connection
• breadcrumb, baguette
• rendition
• mosquito
• mesh(ing)

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5. Two are better than one

• Compounding
• Closed
• healthspan
• Open
• walking bus, awareness band

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• ethnic cleansing
• electoral cleansing
• fast food
• slow food
• face lift
• voice lift
• speed dating
• read dating, speed friending
• hand-me-down
• hand-me-up

• couch potato
• cot potato
• global warming
• global dimming
• pay-as-you-go
• pay-as-you-throw
• jet-setting
• set-jetting
• metathesis

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6. Mixing and Matching

• Blends (portmanteau words)
• Blend parts of words
• mobisode
• Blend whole words and parts of words
• threequel

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• flexitarian
• babymoon
• freecycling
• chugger
• blook
• bioneer
• manny
• bustitution

• exergaming
• voluntourist
• clickprint
• smirting
• smexting
• greenwash
• flog

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7. Cutting and pasting

• Affixation
• Use familiar prefixes and suffixes
• re-, -ology
• Put them in new places
• rewind, recalculate
• regift

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• miswant
• hypnosurgery
• xenotransplantation
• polyamorous

• garbology
• trolleyology
• gingerism
• bouncebackability

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8. Go forth and multiply

• Derivations
• google
• googler, googleable, ungoogleable, googleability
• polyamorous
• polyamorist, polyamory
• Agent nouns
• read dating/read dater
• smirting/smirter
• set jetting/set jetter
• regifting/regifter
• pod slurping/pod slurper

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9. Keep it brief

• Abbreviations
• VHS?DVD?HD
• MP3/4
• VOIP
• H5N1
• Acronyms
• BOGOF/bogof
• ASBO, BASBO
• WAG
• HIP

• wilfing
• What was I looking for?
• skier
• Spend the kids inheritance
• Clipping
• weblog
• blog

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10. Something borrowed

• borrowing, loan words.
• tsunami
• sudoku
• wiki
• galactico
• borrow and blend
• smushi
• sushi smørrebrød

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