"What makes a word real?" by Anne Curzan
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Fill in the blank spaces with the correct word as you listen to the video. make sure to listen carefully!
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a woman is talking to an audience about her linguistics research and how words become official
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"What makes a word real?" by Anne CurzanVideo length
17 minutes 14 seconds
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Lectures (e.g. TED talks)
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The above lesson is a great teaching resource for:Advanced (C1)
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This resource is intended for:Business/professional students
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7/7/2020
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1. Fill the gap.
… I was at a dinner party and the man to my right started telling me about all the ways that the Internet isthe English …
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I think most people, when they say a word isn't real, what they mean is, it doesn't appear in adictionary.
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" When I teach the history of the English language, I require that students teach me two newwords before I will begin class.
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… " which -- (Applause) — which is when you areor angry because you are hungry,
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… " which is when you are adorable in kind of away, clearly, terrific words that fill important gaps in the English language.
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…dictionary up on a pedestal in this place of honor and respect lying open so we can go stand before it to get answers.
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I'mas a teacher that we tell students to critically question every text they read,
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… but they don't want to appearand include the words that aren't going to make it,
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And we have made some questionable choices, for example in 2006 when the word of the year was "Plutoed," to mean
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(Laughter) But some of the past winners now seem completelysuch as "app" and "e" as a prefix, and "google" as a verb.
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What is striking about this is that there's actually often quite a lot ofbetween their list and the list that we are …
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We're noticing words that are coming into
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I have an entire file in my office of newspaper articles which express concern aboutwords that should not have been …
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… and one of the ways that they can beis that they're changing meaning.
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"Peruse has long meant 'to read
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… skim,' has traditionally been considered an error, but ourresults suggest that it is becoming somewhat more acceptable.
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" Ah, the Usage Panel, that trusted body of language authorities who is getting moreabout this.
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… and we should be entirelyto think that the English language is in trouble.
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I hope that what you can do is find language change notbut fun and fascinating, just the way dictionary editors do.
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… but there is no objective dictionary authority out there that is the finalabout what words mean.
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