Words of the year from down under
The Macquarie Dictionary’s Australian Word of the Year for 2011 is burquini or burkini. The burquini, a blend of the words burqa and bikini, is the very concealing swimsuit designed for Muslim women. The Australian People’s Choice Award went to fracking(fracturation in French), a shortening of fracturing. Michael Quinion writes in World Wide Words that a report by Jonathan Fahey of the Associated Press said that the oil and gas industry prefers frac and fraccing and argues that the “k” was added by opponents to suggest the violent connotations of words such as smack and whack. No comment!
The Australian word of the year for 2010 was googlegänger, or googleganger, an interesting term for a person with the same name as oneself, whose online references are mixed with the search results for one’s own name. It is a portmanteau derived from the German word doppelgänger.
The Word Geek’s word of the year for 2011: game changer (adj. game-changing)
Game changer is my personal word of the year, because it was everywhere in 2011. A game changer is a new factor that will change the outcome of something. In French, some possible ways of rendering this expression are facteur de changement, changer la donne, changer les règles du jeu and novateur.
The Oxford English Dictionary online defines the noun as “an event, idea or procedure that effects a significant shift in the current way of doing or thinking about something… However, according to popular usage, as confirmed by Investopedia, a game changer is also “a person who is a visionary or a company that alters its business strategy and conceives an entirely new business plan. This is why we see such phrases in the news as “Obama is a game changer” and “an industry game changer.”
9. Using mobile phones and Internet. Find out the neologisms of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. Render on spheres neologisms appeared. Are there any differences? Draw the differences in pie chart or bar charts.
10. The students work in small groups. The teacher gives them the tasks for writing. For each group the teacher gives the different type of writing activities:
1 group: Free writing –to write about English vocabulary and Neologisms;
2 group: Academic writing. Learning vocabulary is more important than learning to speak, read, write or listen.
3 group: to write a magazine article for the word “omnishables”.
Then the groups present their writing tasks to the whole class.
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