Wednesday, October 19, 2011

blog post # 5

Irresistable
ETYMOLOGY:  First used  in 1580, comes from the word resist. 
WORD FORMATION: borrowed word.
MORPHEMES: ir                           resist                     able
                        (prefix)                   (stem)                  (suffix) 
                  bound/derivational     free/lexical         bound/derivational
I.D
ETYMOLOGY:First used in 1955, short term  for identification. 
WORD FORMATION: use as an abbreviation.
MORPHEMES:  i                   d
                      ( Stem)          (prefix)
                     free/lexical  bound/derivational
Assassin 
ETYMOLOGY :First used in 1530, came from Arabic hashishiyyin.
WORD FORMATION: borrowed word.
MORPHEMES: Ass              ass              in
                       ( Stem)         (stem)       (stem)
                       free/lexical   free/lexical  free/lexical
Bio hazard
ETYMOLOGY First used in 1973 combining bio+ hazard.
WORD FORMATION: came from gambling.
MORPHEMES: Bio                                  Hazard
                         (Prefix)                              (stem)
                    bound/derivational               free/lexical
Slushy
ETYMOLOGY: First used in 1791, combining slush+y
WORD FORMATION: as a slang for ship's cook.
MORPHEMES:Slush                  y
                         (stem)              (suffix)
                       free/lexical     bound/derivational

Sunday, October 16, 2011

blog post #4

1.The rise of the social media affects language because we no longer using our knowledge to spell and spend time in a library like we use know mostly everything like newspapers, books, magazines  are just a click away making people lazy and staying home. at the end it hurts all of us in the long run because life is not a click away when we apply for jobs or encounter real life situations we cant click on that.
2. it reduces the necessity to use English language  because theirs websites that translate mostly everything so instead of people practicing English they try and look it up in their own language and read it then, pr w.e it they searching for now its easy to find it in any sore of language and in simple answers.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

bp#3

1
UNbalance          INcomplete
UNcompatible     ILlegal 
UNglorious         ILliterate
UNgratitude        INdecent 
UNvariable          IMmature
IMpossible        IRrational 
INsane             IMperfect
IRresponsible    DIStoleran


Each prefix is different weather we add a UN, IN,IL,IM,IR,DI it all has to be done according to the roots or base of the words.


2 even though they all common because they sound like an s at the  end they all vary in the sense that once you pronounce them the meaning change to either voiced or voiceless words.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

bp2

Jorge
/horjE/

The first syllable of “Jorge” has a voiceless  glottal fricative with a mid central unstressed. The next syllable has a voiced alveolar /r/. the final syllable has onset syllable has the onset of voiced, alveolar liquid with a rhyme of a front, medium-low (eh).

For my name, you start by lowering your tongue toward the bottom teeth to make a “who” sound than make an “r” sound by raising your tongue toward the palate in the back of your mouth, than put your tongue back down towards your lower teeth and push air out of your mouth, making “g” sound.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Language


 Language is diverse for everybody as some know or learn more languages then others. In my case I speak both Spanish and English.
 At my early childhood I was enrolled in school in the united states in which I mostly spoke English either at home or school, I don’t know how my mother understood me, but she did. I finish first grade then I was send to Colombia to study for 5 years, where as a newcomer lacked communicating in Spanish, but as months passed I learned of it and my life took a complete turn, I knew a whole lot of Spanish and my English completely disappeared. I only had the little they teach us in our native country dogs, chicken, number one trough 10 e.t.c. Then 5 years I was back in USA, feeling like new comer all over again. As I sat in a classroom where I didn’t understand the slightest or simplest gesture I felt lost like day dreaming, I was there but at the same it was like I wasn’t  I tried to connect words next thing you know class was over. And all I had was how the teacher introduced himself plus the subject of the day of which I had no information what so ever. A month passed and it was like I had never forgotten my English, I understood everything I even started participating.
Now days, I currently speak English most of the time either at home, friends or work. The only time speak Spanish is when I go to my mother house, because she completely forgot everything she learned when we where little. Even though at times she understand a bit, well especially when I use to argue with my brother and fight most of the time while we were under the same roof. Now when I visit them we get along well, we remember when we were smaller and just laugh. My mother remembers the belts and tries to remember the things we use to say in English to play around with us. However she just don’t know how to respond or communicate with other in any to her language that is not Spanish. Don’t get me wrong she does know how to defend herself when people are disrespectful. At work I speak when costumers whom don’t understand or speak English come in.  As school years pass my vocabulary expands and I learn new words that could help me as I work towards my future and hopefully when my son gets older teach him how to be fluent in both languages, well at least in speaking, reading am not quite good at it, because I don’t read Spanish newspapers or books.
Language I think it happens by try to switch words or put different meaning to words, so that we could expand our vocabulary or be able to explain things in different ways and as we do more and more people listen and adapt to certain ways of putting phrases together. I don’t have a I hypothesis of where it was acquired. Everyone has different views or believes.  My believe is that God created us and gave us all the implements we needed to survive beyond that, is every ones call on where they believe language came from. The way we all learn new languages is the same way we learned the first seen it, practicing and trying to repeat it and learn new thing to expand our vocabulary. What I wonder from language is how every each country was there own language, so that others can’t understand.