Go ahead, make up new words!
- Tania Ceniccola
- 1 lug 2024
- Tempo di lettura: 3 min
Aggiornamento: 1 dic
Did you know you can actually create words in English?
The easiest way to do so, particularly when you're lacking terminology but need to express yourself, is to focus on the function of the word you're looking for.
English is, as a matter of fact, quite a descriptive language, allowing you to easily access concepts by their simple descprition.
The word dishwasher, for example, clearly indicates what item (dish) and which action (wash) we are talking about.
Things of course can get more complicated, nonetheless they also get more interesting as we approach more articulate and creative ways of making up new words.
In this fun, short talk from TEDYouth, lexicographer Erin McKean encourages — nay, cheerleads — her audience to create new words when the existing ones won’t quite do.
She lists out 6 ways to make new words in English, from compounding to “verbing,” in order to make language better at expressing what we mean, and to create more ways for us to understand one another.
So, wait no more!
Practice your Listening Skills & Learn Interesting Information
with this TED Talk on how to make up new words in English!
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Tania
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