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Sunday, 4 March 2007

Tele-everything

Of interest to all you who are studying language change (take note Year 13) and all those interested in Language and ICT (Year12)

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/tele.htm

Read, enjoy, comment. :)

Any suggestions for further coinings on the theme, then feel free to email me or post them and I'll put a selection of our new words up. Definitions to be included please.
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4 comments:

  1. Hannah (www.freewebs.com/ethelanddoreen)5 March 2007 at 12:31

    Teletubby?

    Being fat at a distance?
    Being fat on TV?

    Can't say either definition makes it an acceptable 'art form'.

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  2. Hannah (www.freewebs.com/ethelanddoreen)5 March 2007 at 12:42

    This doesn't go here, but someone just emailed it to me cos they know I'm sad:
    A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

    A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."

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  3. Victoria Elliott5 March 2007 at 13:11

    I love it! Somehow I can't believe in it, but I love it!

    also I like teletubby...

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  4. Tessa6 March 2007 at 12:15

    “Television. No good will come of this device. The word is half Greek and half Latin”. - gutted for that man! really unfortunate.

    also, u kno when u look at one word for ages, and it stops making sense? i totally got that with "tele" (i just realised this comment wud b perfect to analyse in 'language and technology')

    also...i just had to make ANOTHER google account, cos i forgot my other password....yes, i know im whiney.

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