The Newspaper archive goes back to 1759, with 58.1 million newspaper pages. If only one in 100 of those pages had a neologism on it, it would be an entire other OED. That's 500,000
more words. Not even talking about magazines. Not talking about
blogs.
Of course the explosion of social media over the last couple of decades has intensified and accelerated the creation of new words and phrases.
So where will language take us in the future? We just don’t know and it is absolutely impossible for us to guess.
Kerry Maxwell (BuzzWord author @MAcMillan) and Rita Temmerman (professor in applied linguistics (terminology) at Erasmushogeschool Brussels) will try to give us answers to the previous questions.
Of course the explosion of social media over the last couple of decades has intensified and accelerated the creation of new words and phrases.
So where will language take us in the future? We just don’t know and it is absolutely impossible for us to guess.
Kerry Maxwell (BuzzWord author @MAcMillan) and Rita Temmerman (professor in applied linguistics (terminology) at Erasmushogeschool Brussels) will try to give us answers to the previous questions.
This will be the topic for the next conference organized by TermCoord (Terminology Coordination of the European Parliament): “Neologisms in the Digital Age”.
Just today a 7th grader told me I was "jealy" of her hat. It took me a bit of time to realize it was neolingo for jealous." Here are some more: http://daisybrain.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/world-of-wordcraft/
RispondiEliminaAh ah very nice! I like also the neologisms on your blog! thank you for the info!
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