Outside of the Box- Erin

Who is Erin McKean?

• A librarian

• A lexicographer

• A university professor

What is a lexicographer? Someone who..

• decides what a word is

• makes dictionaries

• invents new words

Whose decision is it to decide if a word is a word?

• a lexicographer

• people in general

• the government

Which is not a kind of grammar?

• the unconcious rules you follow

• usage / suitability

• stolen words and structure from other languages

When you take a word from another language , what is it called?

• compounding

• blending

• borrowing

Lunchbox - What is this an example of?

• Blending

• Compounding

• Functional shift

Google - To Google - What is this an example of?

• compounding

• Back formation

• functional shift

Which is an acronym?

• PrepaTec

• Hi

• NASA

Why should you make up words according to the speaker?

• to confuse people

• to have fun

• to express yourself -get your message across