Blog post #5

1.-Assassin

This word came from french and italian, from arabic "hashishiyyin". It was a reputation for murdering opposing leaders after intoxicating themselves with hanish.

2.- word formation: Assass and in is the suffix  

3.-  ASSASSIN 

(bound, Derivational)     

2.- Thanksgiving 

 "The giving of thanks" Word began in the 1530's. The nouns thanks is a verb that came from thank from mid 14th century. Thanksgiving dates from 1630s (the first one in America was held October 1621)

2.- word formation- Thanks that comes from the verb thank adding a 's' at the end therefore it is thanks and giving "the giving of thanks".

3.- Thank-           s-                               Give-                    ing  

(free- functional)  (suffix-derivational)    (free-lexical)     (free-functional) 

3.- Operation 

 Word in the late 14th century. It means "action, performance and work". From french operacion. Opera- work and effort. 

2.- word formation-  Opera- tion (conversion)

3.- Operat-            ion

(free-lexical)       (suffix-bound) 

4.- Facebook 

word from the 1983. Originally used by college students from face+ book. The social networking site date from 2004. 

2.- word formation- This is a blending of face + book 

3.-  Face -         book 

(both are free- lexical)

5.Trignometry 

Word in the 1610's. A branch of mathematics dealing with relations between sides and angles of triangles. From greek word trigonon and trigonometria. 

2.- Word formation- from greek trigonon and trigonometria.

3.- TRIGNO            METRY

(free-lexical)    (bound-derivational)

Blog Post #4

1.-  The rise of social networking affects language use greatly because over time there will be a time where no one is going to be talking to each other face by face. It will be either by text message, facebook or twitter. This sites didn't exist six years ago.The use of lnaguage is going to greatly dissaperar and people will soon forget how to talk. Like in text messages people wrtie lol (laugh out loud), bbl (be back later) or ttyl (talk to you later). A teen would send 2,236 texts each day which is a lot. People really aren't talking face to face anymore the rise of social networking is basically thorugh internet. Overtime social networking will be the prime communicater betrween people and the use of langauge will incrase and they would start using words like lol, rotfl, ttyl,bbl, and everyday people are creating new words like for example my friend texted me saying wyd and im like what is that and she said it stand for what you doing.

2.- The spread of internet reduces the neccesity of english knowledge because everything is on the internet. You're either googling it or using wikipedia. We don't use books anymore. Even online newspapers and magazines are on the internet. In time there will not be more books or newpapers or magazines it would be all on the internet.

Blog post #3

1.-  UNbalance,UNcompatible,INcomplete ,INdecent,UNglorious ,UNgratitude, ILlegal ,ILliterate, IMmature,IMperfect,IMpossible ,IRrational,IRresponsible,INsane,DIStolerant ,UNvariable 

Some of the prefixes are different because you're either adding a "un" , "in", "il", "im" , "ir" or "dis' which gives the word a completely different meaning. You put the prefixes in front of the word which is the root meanwhile the word is the base.

2.- They all have the same sounds which is voiceless and when you say the sounds in the end they have the "s" and "z' sounds.

Blog Post #2- How Do You Say Your Name

1. Cassandra
  /k san dra/

2.The first syllable of my name just comes from the pharyngeal cavity since it starts of with the letter "k". Then in the second syllable which is "san" has a set of voiceless which comes from the teeth producing the letter "s" which is a voiceless and then using the tongue to produce the letter "n" at the end. The last syllable "dra" you're using the alveolar ridge to produce the d and then your tongue for the "a".

3. To pronounce my name you would have to start by using your throat to say "k" follows by using your teeth and lips to produce the "s" followed by the "n" and finally your tongue has to be at the alveolar ridge to produce "dra".

Blog Post #1

Hi my name is Cassandra and i was born in united states. My relationship with language is I speak two different languages English,Spanish and a little bit of Italian and sometimes I have the tendency to mix them. Basically my whole life I've been surronded wirth english and spanish and I learned Italian in high school for three  years and till now i still manage to remember everything I learned.For example my mom would say in Spanish Como Esta's which means how are you and I would just respond by saying I'm good in english and that would get her mad. Also, there would be times in which I would mix spanish and english together in one sentence. I know how to read and write Spanish and at times I remember some of my Italian in which I took in high school for three years.My parents are from Bolivia and sometimes the things they say I don't understand because it's something they learned there. I think that sometimes I don't understand Spanish because people have different ways of speaking Spanish. In school I hear all different types of languages and sometimes the things I hear in spanish are things I don't understand. People from Colombia,Ecuador, Dominican republic and Puerto Rico speak different forms of spanish and honestly I don't understand a thing. With my friends it isn't a problem at all because we all speak english and at work they all speak english so it isn't a problem for me.

At home my parents always spoke spanish to me and that's how I learned to speak that language. When I went to Bolivia when I was little all they did was speak spanish and that's how I manages to learn that language. In school all my teachers and friends spoke english so that was something I learned really quickly and it was a language that I already knew because I was born here in USA. All the shows I watched on TV helped me learn this language. My hypothesis of how language is acuqiured is you learn it by hearing  because after you heard that language so many times you begin to know it without even realizing it and therefore you end up speaking that language. I know two languages and it is the same because you're going through the same process which is you're always hearing it and that's how you're learning. There are so many different languages in this world you begin to think how was it made. It's an answer which we may never find out. What I wondered about languages is how did we manage to form so many languages throughout the years. Was there someone a long time ago who taught people these different types of languages and somehow these people made up their own languages which turned out to be international languages? Who knows I may be right or maybe not.

Hi

welcome to intro to langauge