Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!
Ерін МакКін: Вигадуйте нові слова!
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.
всі можливі слова в словник.
that is your job.
це ваша робота.
decides together
разом вирішують,
who agree to understand each other.
які погоджуються розуміти одне одного.
to decide whether a word is good or bad,
хороше це слово, чи ні,
"Because grammar!"
"Така граматика!"
too much -- don't tell anybody.
граматикою - нікому не кажіть.
there are two kinds of grammar.
є два види граматики.
that lives inside your brain,
speaker of a language
when you speak that language.
коли говорите тією мовою, є несвідомими.
you learn a language as a child.
коли вчите мову.
how to make the plural of wug.
як робити множину слова пташка.
you just understand it.
ви просто його розумієте.
by a professor at [Boston University]
Бостонського коледжу
for a long time.
that exist in your brain,
що живуть у вашому мозку,
they're more like laws of nature.
вони більше схожі на закони природи.
a law of nature, right?
підкорятись законам природи, так?
your mom doesn't say,
ваша мама не каже вам:
it's going to be cold, take a hoodie,
що там холодно, вдягни светр,
about manners than they are about nature.
аніж природи.
"Don't wear hats on your feet."
"Не носи шапку на ногах."
"Can you wear hats inside?
"Чи можна носити шапку в приміщенні?
you get to wear?"
of grammar,
другого виду граматики,
as opposed to grammar.
на противагу граматиці.
rules-based grammar
на цю засновану на правилах граматику,
від створення нових слів.
people are always telling you,
invent things, science and technology."
вигадуйте речі, науку, технології."
words, they're like,
whippersnappers. Give it a rest."
We should have more of them.
as many new words as possible.
щоб ви створили якомога більше слів.
you can use to make new words in English.
для створення нових англійських слів.
languages.
(Laughter)
(Сміх)
so I'm just going to be honest
тому я буду чесною
that we like, like delicious food.
що нам подобається, як смачна їжа.
we took "caramel" from French.
і "карамель" з французької.
for cool things like "ninja," right?
наприклад, "ніндзя", правда?
ninjas are hard to steal from.
can make words in English
в англійській мові -
other English words together.
you can put any two of them together.
зможете скласти будь-які два слова разом.
"sandcastle" all are compounds.
замок з піску - це складні слова.
"duckface," just don't make duckface.
тільки не робіть обличчя качки.
in English is kind of like compounding,
нагадує складання,
when you squish the words together
щоб з'єднати їх,
of "breakfast" and "lunch."
слів "сніданок" та "ланч".
was a blend word?
що "мотель" - це суміш слів?
there are parts missing.
що деякі частини слова відсутні.
of "education" and "entertainment."
"навчання" та "розвага".
blend of "electric" and "execute."
"електрика" і "страчувати".
by changing how they operate.
змінивши спосіб їхньої експлуатації.
as one part of speech,
part of speech.
hasn't always been a verb?
що дружити не завжди було дієсловом?
and then we verbed it.
а потім ми перетворили його на дієслово.
перетворити на дієслова.
and make them into nouns.
і перетворити його на іменник.
and now it's a noun.
а тепер це ще іменник "реклама".
in English is back-formation.
kind of squish it down a little bit.
"editor" before we had the word "edit."
слово редактор, а потім слово редагувати.
sound a little silly:
and burglers burgle.
а грабіжники грабують.
and squish them together.
і з'єднати ці букви в одне слово.
Administration becomes NASA.
with anything, OMG!
OMG (Oh my God)!
the words are.
англійськими словами.
good word of English.
good word of English.
normal, they can sound really silly.
вони можуть звучати смішно.
your meaning across.
та поділитись нею.
you're saying
що ви говорите.
your meaning across.
on this stage today have said,
сказали,
help us explore, you can help us invent."
допоможете вигадати."
вигадати зараз.
почніть вигадувати слова вже сьогодні,
in my online dictionary, Wordnik.
онлайн-словника 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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