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Chinglish

Isaac Rivera
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Chinglish

Attacking the world through peace, and not violence is the only true way one might understand what directions this world is going. When one person speaks to another from two entirely different cultures, will they understand each other? The answer is as clear as a newly made glass window, with some imperfections, but clear to understand. If languages are becoming uniform and universal, that just shows this world is going in the right direction. Many newly formed languages or dialects of the English language are bringing our world closer together. If there were a universal language that one may speak, many would have a better understanding of each other.  In the articles “How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand” by Michael Erard and “From English to Chinglish: The Globalization of Languages,” which was pulled together by different sources, one could realize what direction our world is trying to go in.

The English language is evolving into a unison language that many countries today speak English in conversation. Now these conversations taking place, sound different in nature because other countries outside the United States of America (USA) pronounce it different, but the words and meanings are the same. In both articles they describe something really common as a “Bathroom”. (In the English language bathroom can be expressed so many different ways such as restroom, lavatory, men’s room, ladies room, head, john, facilities, toilet etc…) Well as described in both articles, in China the handicap bathroom is described as “deformed man lavatory.” In the English language this can be taken as political incorrect, but in the Chinese language they didn’t have the word for handicap bathroom so when they came up with the word in English they used what was in their vocabulary and that would be “deformed man lavatory.” Now looking into this the fact is, if one was to look at this sign over a bathroom it would be universal and an English speaking person would clearly understand this. Taking this example and looking forward into our future, one can gather that we are coming to an understanding like never before; an acceptances of each other, which can break the barrier of language to all new heights.

To go in a direction of universal understanding there are affects to the languages. As we do progress into the future and combine and formulate a worldwide language, other languages start to die off.  One example of languages dying off is said in the article “From English to Chinglish: The Globalization of Languages,” about half of the languages have died in the past 500 years, and it is expected in the next 500 years half of the world’s 7,000 languages will die. Latin is considerate a dead language, which the romance languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) are said to originate from. One may think that losing a language might be like losing ones culture, but to better understand what a universal language can do for the world, we must look to India. In India there are more then 400 languages and the official language is Hindi; but “English is thus seen as an ethnically neutral choice to avoid the conquest of one Indian culture over another.” So while India uses English for neutral affairs in political situations when they have an official language, we can see how uniting languages can bring us closer to peace and a better understanding of one another.

Read these articles one can see that language is universal, as we interact with one another: we teach and learn. As time goes by more and more people are coming together, and that is because we can understand and relate to each other. Hello is a universal word that can be translated in every language, and grasp by all. So when we are in the streets of India, China, or America say “hello” to your follow Human.

I'm Going to Get You Copper

New Word New World

Isaac Rivera

New Word for a New World

        Thinking into what word I can come up with and enjoy to write about was so difficult. I wanted it to be fun and mean something cool. So during the process I couldn’t think of any cool words (except bad ones I didn’t want to mention). So looking deeper into what I like, which is to become a cop and lights just went off in my head. Where did cop come from and what could it mean?

        My first thoughts were to define it before I looked it up, I wanted to see how close or far I get from the meaning. So cop could mean authority, or maybe it came from the old westerns, back when cowboys and Indians roamed the earth. I believe that might be the best answer that back in the westerns the sheriff got his badge from a piece of copper from the copper mines, and then forged it to a star.

        After looking up the meaning, I found the word to be silly and not so useful. I felt cop had such a better meaning, but I found out it is just a slang word that came during the early eighteenth century. Its slang meaning meant, “to get ahold of, catch, capture.” So by the mid 19th century the word became more familiarized and was used more and got the

-er added to want the word copper. So the meaning stood for cops and policeman became cops or copper which means a person cops, or catches and arrests criminals.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

1. Etymology- The study of origin & history of a word.
  
   Entomology- The study of insects.
2.  a) footubooru (Japan) - Football (ENG) = Borrowed
    b) trenting (Hungarian) - Training (ENG) = Loan Translation
    c) luna de miel ( Spanish - “moon of honey”) - honeymoon (ENG) = Compounding
    d) jardin d’ enfants (FRE) - kindergarten (GER) loan - translation
3. a) Acronyms
   b) Coinage
   c) Infixes
   d) Conversion
  e) compounding
  f) Clipping
  g) Backformation
  h) Blending
4. Misfortune, terrorism, carelessness, disagreement, ineffective, unfaithful, prepackaged, biodegradable, reincarnation, decentralization
5. Srnal
6. a) Blending
   b) Clipping/ Coinage
  c) Conversation
 d) Borrowing/ Compounding
 e) coniage
 f) Backformation

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

1.     Phoneme is the recognition of a letter in a word and subtracting the first letter and it means something different. Example fine and vine, f and v share this. And allophones id the same but the aspiration is different such as [S]tar. Tar there is more air released than in star.

2.     A. The puff of air released when pronouncing the letter in a word, ex: [S]Tar.

B. Kill, pool, top

3.     Bet-vet, fat-pat, ?

4.     The constraints on the permissible combination of sounds in language.

5.     An open syllables has a onset and nucleus but no coda, and a closed syllables has a coda.

6.     Government, postman, sandwich

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

1.     Acoustic phonetics is the physical properties of speech, articulatory phonetics is the study of how speech sounds are made.

2.      

a.     +v        d.   +v    g. +v

b.     –v        e.   –v    h. +v

c.     +v        f.   +v    i.  –v

3.          a. velar               d. velar          g. bilabial       j. alveolar

     b. patatal            e. glottal        h. bilabial      k. dental

     c. labbiodental    f. alveolar     i. palatal        l. alveolar

4.          a. Fricative                     d. fricative           g. Nasal

     b. stop                e. Affricative       h. Fricative

     c. stop                f. liquids              i. Glide

5.          a. Bike               d. howl           g. who          j. cool

     b. bought           e. howl           h. cloak         k. chip

     c. face                f. hoping        i. mine           l. the

6.          a. kaetʃ              d. mezər          g.   ʃaɪ          j. təf

     b. daeʊ              e.   nɔɪz            h.  ðiz          k. wəd

7.          c. f dɜem           f. foʊ               i. θɔt            l. riŋ

Chapters 1 & 2

Isaac Rivera

Chapter 1

1.     It is difficult to agree with the Psammetichus because what was later written after the theory the kids spoke. The children were just mimicking the It goat’s sound: Be.

2.     This theory was considered a natural sound, flying objects or noises around make sound and are mimicked.

3.     It is considered not to be a human speech sound because the sudden intake of breath which is different than speaking because when you speak you are exhaling.

4.     The pharynx is located above the voice box; it acts as a resonator for an increase in range and clarity of sound.

5.     Sign language is a language people can communicate with each other, their signing forms words for the brain to translate.

6.     I would associate this quote with the Genetic Source.

Chapter 2

1.     It’s allowing person-to-person communication about communicating. Or breaking down the language for it to be les complicated.

2.     Cultural transmission is language passed down from generation to another, an example of this is when a child is born it doesn’t know a language, so whatever language it interacts with: will be the language the child knows.

3.     Productivity is mostly described for humans because humans have a infinite amount of utter where as animals have a fixed reference because they have a finite amount of utters.

4.     It was interacting with humans and a chimp, and showed that some animals can become productivity.

5.     I don’t understand what is asked by the question?

6.     Kanzi was taught at a very early age.