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Anne Curzan: What makes a word “real”? (March 2014)

Summary: There is a controversy on changes in the English language like creation of new words by the Internet users. Anne Curzan, an English professor who is also a language historian, found out that there are many people who concern about this kind of changes and regard new words as not real ones. However, Professor Anne Curzan showed a different point of view toward the fads and changes in English language.(compound sentence) She argued that we should take language change as fascinating and and fun thing and insisted to participate in showing the creativity of the languages on our own since that change is a reflection of our life.(complex sentence IC-DC) When it comes to real languages, we more often than not refer to the dictionaries. In fact, the dictionary editors make the dictionaries by searching the real usages of the words by the mass and decide whether to register that language or not by the results, not by their own preference; therefore, language change is a result of our own usages in languages and it can be attractive.(compound sentence)

Opinion: There are numerous TV shows in Korea with their long history, such as 우리말 겨루기 (Competition on Korean Language) and 우리말 지킴이 (Guardian of Korean Language). Both programs are for promotion of proper Korean language usage. Watching these programs, I thought that it is right to stick to our traditional rules of Korean language. However, when I heard the news that ‘짜장면’ is also authorized as a standard language with ‘자장면’, which was the only registered word on the dictionary, I wondered who decide the rules of Korean language. (complex sentence DC,IC) This video was fascinating to me since it resolved my curiosity. It was really interesting for me to learn the process of making a dictionary and good to hear that it reflects people, not thoughts of minor elite people.

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As Ms Anne Curzan mentioned in her speech, there is an interesting vote for Words of the Year, hosted by American Dialect Society. Every American can vote for the word!

As for newly created languages, you can refer to this site! Keep up with the fad!

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…but they don’t want to appear faddish and include the words that aren’t going to make it.

Are you bothered by language fads and language change, or do you find it fun, interesting, something worthy of study as part of a living language?

Fad (noun) / Faddish (adjective): something that people are interested in for only a short period of time

Synonyms: craze, trend

Antonyms: tradition, convention

Personal Sentence: I found out that I really use a lot of fad words when I text to my friends not only in Korean, but also in English.

Now, a few weeks before our vote, Lake Superior State University issues its list of banished words for the year.

Banish (verb): to make somebody/something go away; to order somebody to leave a place, especially a country, as a punishment

Synonyms: eliminate, eradicate, evict

Antonyms: keep, hold, incorporate

Personal Sentence: I always go for a walk listening to music to banish all my worries.

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Publication date: 2014-06-17

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Topics: TedTalks, TED, Talks, culture, language, TEDxUofM, 2014

Contributor: Access Humboldt — Eureka, CA

Language: English

One could argue that slang words like ‘hangry,’ ‘defriend’ and ‘adorkable’ fill crucial meaning gaps in the English language, even if they don’t appear in the dictionary. After all, who actually decides which words make it into those vaulted pages? Language historian Anne Curzan gives a charming look at the humans behind dictionaries, and the choices they make on a constant basis.

Addeddate: 2014-06-17 16:08:11

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Duration: 1033

Event: TEDxUofM

Filmed: 2014-03-14 17:00:00

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Published: 2014-06-17 07:52:33

Run time: 00:17:13

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Talk_id: 2022

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00:00:11

I need to start by telling you a little bit

Мне стоит начать с небольшого рассказа

about my social life,

о моей светской жизни.

which I know may not seem relevant,

Я знаю, это может показаться неуместным,

but it is.

но это не так.

When people meet me at parties

Когда люди встречают меня на вечеринках

00:00:22

and they find out that I’m an English professor

и узнают,
что я преподаватель английского языка,

who specializes in language,

изучающий языкознание,

they generally have one of two reactions.

они обычно реагируют двумя способами.

One set of people look frightened. (Laughter)

Одни выглядят испуганными.
(Смех)

They often say something like,

Они часто говорят что-то в духе:

00:00:36

«Oh, I’d better be careful what I say.

«Ой, нужно следить за тем, как я говорю.

I’m sure you’ll hear every mistake I make.»

Вы точно услышите любую мою ошибку».

And then they stop talking. (Laughter)

И тут же прекращают разговор.
(Смех)

And they wait for me to go away

Они ждут, когда я уйду,

and talk to someone else.

чтобы заговорить с кем-то ещё.

00:00:52

The other set of people,

Есть и другие,

their eyes light up,

их глаза загораются,

and they say,

и они говорят:

«You are just the person I want to talk to.»

«Вы именно та,
с кем я хочу поговорить».

And then they tell me about whatever it is

А затем они начинают
говорить о проблемах,

00:01:04

they think is going wrong with the English language.

которые, как они думают,
возникают в английском языке.

A couple of weeks ago, I was at a dinner party

Несколько недель назад
я была на званом ужине,

and the man to my right

и мужчина, сидящий справа от меня,

started telling me about all the ways

начал рассказывать,

00:01:16

that the Internet is degrading the English language.

как английский язык
деградирует из-за Интернета.

He brought up Facebook, and he said,

Он открыл Facebook и спросил:

«To defriend? I mean, is that even a real word?»

«Defriend? Разве есть такое слово?»

I want to pause on that question:

Я хочу остановиться на вопросе:

What makes a word real?

Как понять, что слово существует?

00:01:35

My dinner companion and I both know

Мы с моим собеседником понимали,

what the verb «defriend» means,

что значит глагол «defriend»
[убрать из друзей],

so when does a new word like «defriend»

но когда новое слово как «defriend»

become real?

начинает существовать?

Who has the authority to make those kinds

Между прочим, кто имеет право принимать

00:01:48

of official decisions about words, anyway?

подобные решения о существовании слов?

Those are the questions I want to talk about today.

Именно об этом
я хотела сегодня поговорить.

I think most people, when they say a word isn’t real,

Я думаю, что когда люди говорят,
что слово не существует,

what they mean is, it doesn’t appear

они на самом деле имеют в виду,

in a standard dictionary.

что его нет в словаре.

00:02:02

That, of course, raises a host of other questions,

Конечно, из-за этого
возникает целый ряд вопросов,

including, who writes dictionaries?

и один из них: кто составляет словари?

Before I go any further,

Прежде чем продолжить,

let me clarify my role in all of this.

я поясню свою роль во всём этом.

I do not write dictionaries.

Я не составляю словари.

00:02:16

I do, however, collect new words

Однако я собираю новые слова,

much the way dictionary editors do,

совсем, как редакторы словарей,

and the great thing about being a historian

и самое замечательное в том,

of the English language

что я историк английского языка, —

is that I get to call this «research.»

возможность называть это
«исследованием».

00:02:29

When I teach the history of the English language,

Во время курса
истории английского языка,

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Humans love to play with words, whether it’s to better express what we have to say or to show off a personal style.

This brings us new words such as “hangry” and “adorkable”—words that have made it into our daily lexicon, but have not made it into a formal dictionary. Go behind the scenes of the world’s dictionaries and see the very human decisions that go into creating them. Language historian Anne Curzan gives a charming look at the choices lexicographers make on a constant basis.

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