Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!
Ерин МакКийн: Давайте, измисляйте нови думи.
As the co-founder of Reverb Technologies, the maker of the online dictionary Wordnik, Erin McKean is reshaping how we interact with language itself. Full bio
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into the dictionary.
that is your job.
това е вашата задача
decides together
решават заедно
who agree to understand each other.
се съгласяват да се разбират помежду си.
to decide whether a word is good or bad,
решат дали някоя дума е добра или лоша
"Because grammar!"
"Заради граматиката! "
too much -- don't tell anybody.
граматиката - не казвайте на никого.
there are two kinds of grammar.
има два вида граматика.
that lives inside your brain,
която живее в мозъка ви,
speaker of a language
when you speak that language.
които следвате когато говорите езика.
you learn a language as a child.
how to make the plural of wug.
да направите множествено число за уъг.
you just understand it.
това правило, просто го знаете.
by a professor at [Boston University]
в Бостънския университет
през 1958 година.
for a long time.
разглеждана от доста време.
that exist in your brain,
съществуват в ума ви,
they're more like laws of nature.
а по-скоро като природните правила.
a law of nature, right?
за природните правила, нали така?
your mom doesn't say,
майка ви не ви казва,
it's going to be cold, take a hoodie,
че ще е студено, вземи си яке,
закона за гравитацията."
about manners than they are about nature.
за маниерите, отколкото за природата.
"Don't wear hats on your feet."
"Не носи шапки на краката си."
"Can you wear hats inside?
"Могат ли да се носят шапки на закрито?
you get to wear?"
of grammar,
като втория вид граматика,
as opposed to grammar.
вместо граматика.
rules-based grammar
основан на правила тип граматика,
които измислят думи.
people are always telling you,
invent things, science and technology."
изкуство, изобретявайте неща, наука и технологии."
words, they're like,
whippersnappers. Give it a rest."
калпазани. Стига толкова."
We should have more of them.
Трябва да имаме повече от тях.
as many new words as possible.
колкото можете повече нови думи.
you can use to make new words in English.
за правене на нови думи на английски.
languages.
(Laughter)
(Смях)
so I'm just going to be honest
така че аз ще бъда честна
that we like, like delicious food.
които харесваме, като вкусна храна.
we took "caramel" from French.
'карамел' от френския.
for cool things like "ninja," right?
като 'нинджа', нали така?
ninjas are hard to steal from.
да се краде от нинджи.
can make words in English
на думи на английски
other English words together.
английски думи заедно.
you can put any two of them together.
можете да съберете които и да било две заедно.
"sandcastle" all are compounds.
"sandcastle" всичките са съставни.
"duckface," just don't make duckface.
само не правете патешко лице.
in English is kind of like compounding,
е малко като смесването,
when you squish the words together
за да сплескате думите заедно,
of "breakfast" and "lunch."
"breakfast" и "lunch."
was a blend word?
е преливаща дума?
there are parts missing.
че ѝ липсват части.
of "education" and "entertainment."
"education" и "entertainment."
blend of "electric" and "execute."
между "electric" и "execute."
by changing how they operate.
променяйки как те работят.
as one part of speech,
определена част на речта
part of speech.
hasn't always been a verb?
не винаги е била глагол?
and then we verbed it.
докато ние не го глаголизирахме.
може да бъде глаголизирана.
and make them into nouns.
и да ги превърнете в съществителни.
and now it's a noun.
сега е съществително.
можете да правите неща 'зелени'.
in English is back-formation.
на английски е в обратен ред.
kind of squish it down a little bit.
смачкате малко.
"editor" before we had the word "edit."
"editor" преди да имаме "edit."
sound a little silly:
звучат леко глупаво:
and burglers burgle.
прислугват и обирджиите обират.
на думи на английски
and squish them together.
и да ги смачкате заедно.
Administration becomes NASA.
Administration става NASA.
with anything, OMG!
с всичко, OMG!
the words are.
добри английски думи.
good word of English.
good word of English.
normal, they can sound really silly.
те могат да звучат много глупаво.
защото всяка дума
your meaning across.
и да предадете това, което имате предвид.
вниманието на хората.
you're saying
което казвате
your meaning across.
да изразите мислите си.
on this stage today have said,
на тази сцена днес казаха,
help us explore, you can help us invent."
да ни помогнете да изследваме, да изобретяваме."
създавате думи днес,
in my online dictionary, Wordnik.
в моя онлайн речник, Wordnik.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Erin McKean - Dictionary editorAs the co-founder of Reverb Technologies, the maker of the online dictionary Wordnik, Erin McKean is reshaping how we interact with language itself.
Why you should listen
Erin McKean's job as a lexicographer involves living in a constant state of research. She searches high and low -- from books to blogs, newspapers to cocktail parties -- for new words, new meanings for old words, or signs that old words have fallen out of use. In June of this year, she involved us all in the search by launching Wordnik, an online dictionary that houses all the traditionally accepted words and definitions, but also asks users to contribute new words and new uses for old words. Wordnik pulls real-time examples of word usage from Twitter, image representations from Flickr along with many more non-traditional, and highly useful, features.
Before Wordnik, McKean was one of the youngest editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary. She continues to serve as the editor of the language quarterly Verbatim ("language and linguistics for the layperson since 1974") and is the author of multiple books, including That's Amore and the entire Weird and Wonderful Words series. All that, and she maintains multiple blogs, too: McKean is the keen observationalist behind A Dress a Day and Dictionary Evangelist. Is there anything she can't do? Surprisingly, she is notoriously bad at Scrabble.
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