modern english Flashcards
1
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industrial revolution
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-advances in industry and science created a need for neologisms to describe new creations e.g ‘biology’
2
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present day
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- in the current digital age, English is going through a peak in terms of acquisition
- expanding over 8,000 terms a year e.g ‘twerk’
3
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technology
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- explosion of electronic and computer terminology e.g ‘software’
- internet gave rise to new words e.g ‘spam’ which meant neologisms spread quickly
- ‘BRB’ ‘LOL’ created for social media
4
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American influence
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- 1st edition of websters dictionary, was published in 1806
- featured American words like center’ for ‘centre’
- part of the American influence was the slave trade
5
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prescriptive grammer
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- lays out rules about the structure of grammer
- deals with what the writer thinks is right and wrong
6
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key literary figures
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Charles dickens, who was the first writer to use popular slang in his own words
