Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!
Erin McKean: Silakan, buatlah kata-kata baru!
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.
kata-kata yang ada ke dalam kamus.
that is your job.
menentukan kata; itu tugas Anda.
decides together
bahasa Inggris memutuskan bersama
who agree to understand each other.
memutuskan untuk mengerti satu sama lain.
to decide whether a word is good or bad,
yang kuat saat sedang menentukan
"Because grammar!"
"Karena tata bahasa!"
too much -- don't tell anybody.
tata bahasa -- jangan bilang orang.
there are two kinds of grammar.
ada dua jenis tata bahasa.
that lives inside your brain,
terpatri di otak Anda,
speaker of a language
when you speak that language.
Anda patuhi saat berbicara.
mempelajari bahasa ketika kecil.
you learn a language as a child.
how to make the plural of wug.
tahu bentuk jamak dari "wug".
Anda sudah memahaminya.
you just understand it.
by a professor at [Boston University]
seorang profesor di Boston College
for a long time.
that exist in your brain,
they're more like laws of nature.
namun lebih seperti hukum alam.
a law of nature, right?
mematuhi hukum alam, kan?
your mom doesn't say,
ibu Anda tidak berkata,
it's going to be cold, take a hoodie,
akan dingin, bawalah jaket,
about manners than they are about nature.
dengan tata krama daripada dengan alam.
sebuah kata layaknya sebuah topi.
"Don't wear hats on your feet."
"Jangan memakai topi di kaki."
"Can you wear hats inside?
topi digunakan di dalam ruang?
you get to wear?"
yang boleh digunakan?"
dengan tata bahasa tipe kedua,
of grammar,
as opposed to grammar.
sebagai penggunaan, bukan tata bahasa.
rules-based grammar
bahasa berasas hukum seperti ini
dari menciptakan kata-kata.
people are always telling you,
invent things, science and technology."
seni, hal-hal baru, sains dan teknologi."
words, they're like,
kata-kata, mereka bilang,
whippersnappers. Give it a rest."
di sini, anak sombong. Berhentilah."
harus punya lebih banyak.
We should have more of them.
as many new words as possible.
sebanyak mungkin kata-kata baru.
you can use to make new words in English.
menciptakan kata dalam bahasa Inggris.
languages.
(Laughter)
(Tertawa)
dikembalikan, jadi saya akan jujur
so I'm just going to be honest
hal yang kita sukai, seperti makanan.
that we like, like delicious food.
we took "caramel" from French.
Cina,"caramel" dari bahasa Perancis.
for cool things like "ninja," right?
keren seperti "ninja", kan?
ninjas are hard to steal from.
karena sulit mencuri dari ninja.
can make words in English
kata dalam bahasa Inggris
other English words together.
kata-kata dalam bahasa Inggris.
you can put any two of them together.
menggabungkan dua kata menjadi satu.
"sandcastle" all are compounds.
"istana pasir" semua hasil penggabungan.
"duckface," just don't make duckface.
bebek," hanya jangan mempraktekkannya.
in English is kind of like compounding,
when you squish the words together
terlalu kuat saat menggabungkan
of "breakfast" and "lunch."
dari "breakfast" dan "lunch."
dari "motor" dan "hotel."
was a blend word?
"motel" adalah kata campuran?
there are parts missing.
ada sebagian kata yang hilang.
of "education" and "entertainment."
dari "education" dan "entertainment."
blend of "electric" and "execute."
dari "electric" dan "execute."
by changing how they operate.
dengan merubah fungsinya.
as one part of speech,
part of speech.
hasn't always been a verb?
bukanlah sebuah kata kerja sebelumnya?
and then we verbed it.
yang kemudian dirubah menjadi kata kerja.
bisa dirubah menjadi kata kerja.
and make them into nouns.
kata sifat menjadi kata benda.
and now it's a noun.
sifat dan sekarang kata benda.
[memberi izin kepada] sesuatu.
in English is back-formation.
dengan menanggalkan akhirannya.
kind of squish it down a little bit.
kata dan menyingkatnya sedikit.
"editor" before we had the word "edit."
terdapat kata "editor" sebelum "edit."
sound a little silly:
akhiran ini terdengar lucu:
and burglers burgle.
dan burglers burgle.
kata dalam bahasa Inggris
and squish them together.
huruf pertamanya.
Administration becomes NASA.
Administration menjadi NASA.
with anything, OMG!
ini dengan kata manapun, OMG!
the words are.
good word of English.
yang baik dalam bahasa Inggris.
good word of English.
yang baik dalam bahasa Inggris.
normal, they can sound really silly.
normal, mereka bisa terdengar sangat lucu.
your meaning across.
dan menyampaikan maksud Anda.
terhadap apa yang Anda katakan
you're saying
your meaning across.
baik dalam menyampaikan maksud.
on this stage today have said,
berkata di atas panggung ini ,
help us explore, you can help us invent."
menjajaki, menciptakan."
sebuah kata baru sekarang.
kata-kata hari ini,
di kamus daring milik saya, Wordnik.
in my online dictionary, 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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