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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

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

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

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Questions:

Do you agree that the Internet is degrading the language?
Do you use the words like “defriend, newbie, troll”? Should they be included in the dictionaries?
What is your attitude toward dictionaries? Do you agree that “we tend to treat as un-authored, as if they came from nowhere to give us answers about what words really mean”?
How do editors create dictionaries? Why do they have to “gamble”?
Do you think the words like ‘multi-slacking’ and ‘recombobulation’ have a right to exist?
Are you bothered by language fads and language change or do you find it fun, interesting? Why?
Why, according to the speaker, the language “is not in trouble”?

Vocabulary:

a host of = a large number of something:

That, of course, raises a host of other questions, including, who writes dictionaries?

cranky = easily annoyed or upset (informal)

dorky = stupid or boring

Over the years, I have learned some great new slang this way, including «hangry,» which is when you are cranky or angry because you are hungry, and «adorkable», which is when you are adorable in kind of a dorky way…

show of hands = a vote in which people raise one of their hands to show that they support a suggestion

I’m going to do this as a show of hands: How many of you still regularly refer to a dictionary, either print or online?

faddish = fashionable for a short time

They have to gamble, because they want to appear cutting edge and catch the words that are going to make it, such as LOL, but they don’t want to appear faddish and include the words that aren’t going to make it, and I think a word that they’re watching right now is YOLO, you only live once.

to banish = to make someone or something go away; to get rid of someone or something

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

overlap = if one thing overlaps another, or the two things overlap, part of one thing covers part of the other

What is striking about this is that there’s actually often quite a lot of overlap between their list and the list that we are considering for words of the year, and this is because we’re noticing the same thing.

to come into prominence

prominence = the state of being important, well known, or noticeable

We’re noticing words that are coming into prominence.

quaint = strange and unusual in a charming way

These complaints now strike us as quaint, if not downright adorkable, but here’s the thing: we still get quite worked up about language change.

lenient = not as strict as expected when punishing someone or when making sure that rules are obeyed

… the Usage Panel, that trusted body of language authorities who is getting more lenient about this.

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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