Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!
ارین مککین: ! آگے بڑھے ,نئے الفاظ بنایئے
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.
وہ آپکا کام ہے۔
decides together
who agree to understand each other.
ایک دوسرے کو سمجھنا چاہتے ہیں،
to decide whether a word is good or bad,
ہوتے ہیں
"Because grammar!"
" کیونکہ گرائمر!"
too much -- don't tell anybody.
کسی کو بتانا نہیں۔
there are two kinds of grammar.
that lives inside your brain,
speaker of a language
when you speak that language.
you learn a language as a child.
سیکھتے ہیں.
how to make the plural of wug.
you just understand it.
سمجھتے ہیں۔
by a professor at [Boston University]
پروفیسر نے ایجاد کیا تھا
تھا۔
for a long time.
that exist in your brain,
they're more like laws of nature.
یہ قدرت کے اصولوں کی ماند ہوتے ہیں۔
a law of nature, right?
نہں پڑتی، ٹھیک کہا نا؟
your mom doesn't say,
یہ نہں کہتیں کہ
it's going to be cold, take a hoodie,
about manners than they are about nature.
سے زیادہ ہوتے ہیں۔
کرتی ہے تو
"Don't wear hats on your feet."
"ٹوپی امنی پاوں میں نہ پہنو۔"
"Can you wear hats inside?
"کیا آپ ٹوپی اندر پہن سکتے ہیں؟"
you get to wear?"
of grammar,
as opposed to grammar.
کہتے ہیں، گرائمر کے برعکس۔
rules-based grammar
people are always telling you,
invent things, science and technology."
سائنس و ٹیکنالوجی ایجاد کرو۔"
words, they're like,
whippersnappers. Give it a rest."
We should have more of them.
as many new words as possible.
الفاظ بنایئں.
you can use to make new words in English.
انگریزی میں نیے لفظ بنا سکتے ہیں۔
languages.
(Laughter)
so I'm just going to be honest
that we like, like delicious food.
ہمیں پسند ہوں، جیسے مزےدار کھانا۔
we took "caramel" from French.
فرانسیسی سے۔
for cool things like "ninja," right?
جیسے ninja۔
ninjas are hard to steal from.
چرانا نہ ممکن بات ہے۔
can make words in English
بنا سکتے ہیں یہ ہے کہ
other English words together.
you can put any two of them together.
دو اکھٹے ہو سکتے ہیں۔
"sandcastle" all are compounds.
"sandcastle" سب مرکباتی ہیں۔
"duckface," just don't make duckface.
in English is kind of like compounding,
بنانے کا،
when you squish the words together
of "breakfast" and "lunch."
breakfast اور lunch کو جوڑ کے بنا ہے۔
motor اور hotel کو ملا کے بنا ہے۔
was a blend word?
there are parts missing.
of "education" and "entertainment."
education اور entertainment کا مرکب ہے۔
blend of "electric" and "execute."
electric اور execute کا مرکب۔
by changing how they operate.
جس طرح وہ کام کرتے ہیں.
as one part of speech,
part of speech.
hasn't always been a verb?
فعل نہں تھا؟
and then we verbed it.
فعل بنا دیا۔
سکتا ہے۔
and make them into nouns.
and now it's a noun.
in English is back-formation.
جا سکتے ہیں۔
kind of squish it down a little bit.
ہے۔
"editor" before we had the word "edit."
اور پہر "edit" بنا۔
"editor" سےبنا ہے۔
sound a little silly:
and burglers burgle.
اور چور چوری کرتے ہیں۔
and squish them together.
اکھٹا کر لیا جاے۔
Administration becomes NASA.
Administration ناسا ہے۔
with anything, OMG!
the words are.
عجیب ہوں۔
سکتے ہیں۔
good word of English.
good word of English.
normal, they can sound really silly.
your meaning across.
حاصل ہوتی ہے.
you're saying
your meaning across.
ملتا ہے۔
on this stage today have said,
help us explore, you can help us invent."
اور بہت کچھ۔"
سکتے ہیں۔
in my online dictionary, Wordnik.
Wordnik میں ڈالوں گی،
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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