LANGUAGE TIPS

Do you know that language is:

1.       Dynamic?

2.       Coventional?

3.       Arbitary?

Let look at the dynamism of languages:

Language is dynamic in the sense that it is constantly changing. New words can evolve from existing ones and once it is widely accepted and used by a particular speech community, it becomes coventional; because new words evolved do not seem to be based on any reason, plan or system, it is therefore arbitary. All these qualities are the attributes or features of human language.

NEW WORDS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Below Are The Recently Coined Words, Terms And Expressions With Their Meaning

1.       Automagically /adj/ Automatically in a way that seems magical;

2.       Bargainous /adj/ costing less than expected;

3.       Bromance /n/ close platonic male relationship;

4.       Bizzkill /n/ person or thing that has a depressing effect;

5.       Catastrophize /v/ to present a situation as worse than it is;

6.       Cheeseball /adj/ lacking taste or style;

7.       Chillax /v/ to calm down and relax;

8.       Cool hunter /n/ one who predicts new styles and trends;

9.        Cougar /n/ older woman who dates younger men;

10.   Exit strategy /n/ planned means of extricating oneself from a situation;

11.   Frenemy /n/ friend with whom one has frequent conflict;

12.   Friend /v/ to add to a list of personal associates on a website;

13.   Galpal /n/ female friend;

14.   Hater /n/ negative person;

15.   Home sharing /n/ moving job to employees’ homes (from offshoring);

16.   Locavore /n/ one who primarily eats locally grown food;

17.   Matchy – matchy /adj/ excessively color coordinated;

18.   Microblog /v/ to post very short entries on  a blog;

19.   Overleveraged /adj/ having taken on too much debt;

20.   Viral /adj/ circulating on the internet

(Excerpt from Modern English By: Henry Cletus)

From Ben Nnaji

Senior English Language Teacher

LIZDAV Academy