English lesson 8th of april

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English 

and the strange world of words

What are the most common words in the English language?

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To

Be

The

Where do new words come from?

Recent additions to English vocabulary

Cryptocurrency

EGOT

Antifa

Silver alert

Hangry

Mansplain

What are their definitions?

New words as a joke

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'A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man''  -

Jebediah Springfield

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One way a word enters a language is by:

1. Borrowing it from another language
2. Cloning an existing word
3. Luck
4. Eliminating another word

Scientists sometimes use ______ to name a new idea.

1. an already-existing term
2. a synonym
3. words from a classical language
4. random poetic sounds

A way to fill-in a conceptual gap in a language is to:

1. ignore it
2. combine existing words
3. look up a new word
4. guess

The word meme came about through:

1. analogy with the word gene
2. borrowing from another language
3. a dictionary look-up process
4. speculation

Obsolete words can gain new life:

1. Because of nostalgia
2. Through a whim
3. By legislation
4. By giving them new meaning

Some words are borrowed from other languages? Why do we do this rather than invent completely new ones?

Does the internet provide a source for many new words? Why?

Great words or phrases that have not been borrowed yet

Age-tori (Japanese)

Donaldkacsázás (Hungarian)

Tartle (Scottish)

Utepils (Norwegian)

Age-tori (Japans): er slechter uitzien na een bezoek bij de kapper.

Donaldkacsázás (Hongaars): letterlijk ‘donald-duck'en’, waarmee wordt bedoeld dat men thuis rondloopt met een shirt, maar zonder ondergoed.

Tartle (Schots): aarzelen om iemand bij anderen voor te stellen omdat je zijn naam bent vergeten.

Utepils (Noors): buiten in het zonnetje genieten van een biertje. 

As a group: how would you translate these (yet) untranslated Dutch words? 

(Pick 4 words to translate to English using a description, present them to the rest of the class. Use the word in an example) 

Gezellig          Smeuïg

Uitwaaien              Buurvrouw

Borrel            Gedogen

Boffen         Voorpret

Sjoemelen       Zwijgen

Natafelen       Koukleumen

Klunen      Uitbuiken

Tuttig    Slingers

Hé hé

What is wrong with these translations?

• I hold you in the holes
  
• De ui belt op
  
• I hate you all welcome
  
• Can you wise me the way?
  
• I always get my sin
  
• It slaps totally nowhere up
  
• It shall be me a sausage 

• So, so you have it nice for each other
  
• Are you completely from the rats besniffeld
  
• Finally weekend there was I have on to.
  
• It’s bacon slippery outside.