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EPISODE · Jun 12, 2001 · 1 MIN

Go Ahead, Make Up New Words! Audiobook by Erin McKean

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Please visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/114 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Go Ahead, Make Up New Words! Author: Erin McKean Narrator: Erin McKean Format: Original Recording Length: 7 mins Language: English Release date: 06-12-01 Publisher: TED Talks Genres: Live Events, Culture Publisher's Summary: In this fun, short talk from TEDYouth, lexicographer Erin McKean encourages - nay, cheerleads - her audience to create new words when the existing ones won't quite do. She lists out six ways to make new words in English, from compounding to "verbing", in order to make language better at expressing what we mean, and to create more ways for us to understand one another.

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