Just how big is the impact of technology on society

Q1: Visit University Oxford Press at http://global.oup.com/?cc=us. For all years after 2010, find the new word of the year and all the runner-up words perform the simple analysis we presented in the final paragraph above. How has technology impacted the English language in the years after 2010?

2011:

New Word of the year: squeezed middle

 

2012:

New Word of the year : omnishambles

 

2013:

New Word of the year: selfie

 

 

Runners-up:

·         Bedroom tax

·         binge-watch

·         bitcoin

·         olinguito

·         schmeat

·         showrooming

·         twerk

 

From the above data, we found out that the new word of the year has mostly related with technology.

 

Q2: While technology has certainly impacted our language in the last several years, so has the environment, perhaps to an even greater extent than technology. Why have so many environment-related words inserted themselves into our language?

 

More and more people are well educated and we all know that environment is the 2^nd mother of us. People hoping to build up the mind set of environment friendly and the best way is created more new word to educate public, for example, bio-plastic, Bio-petrol and etc. This is the main reason that environment-related words inserted themselves into our language

 

Q3: Create some new technology-related words. Think about the things you do with technology or have witnessed other people doing with technology. Create list of at least five new technology-related words. For each, describe how you derived them and also provide their definition.

 

1)      Foodbook: since people love to take picture of food before start eating and post in Facebook, this word describe people who doing it.

2)      Balktag: always tag all other people instantly in facebook post.

3)      Touchbook: the combination of tablet and netbook

4)      Pencard: pendrive which in card design

5)      Watchphone: watch that can call others.

 

Q4: What about text message abbreviations, emotions, and chat slang terms. Which have been formally recognized by University Oxford Press as a part of the English language? Is it good or bad that these are becoming a part of our formal language? Justify your answer.

 

“Oxford dictionary adds “twerk,” “derp,” “selfie,” “phablet,” and more voguish vocabulary”

 

More and more text message abbreviations, emotions, and chat slang terms has been recognize by University Oxford Press. This is good thing in term of the world is accepting new world but this is also bad where there are not any grammer in the new language. It can be easily use and lower the usage of the word but in the same time the whole paragraph is messy and hard to understand as no structure. Unless this problem can be slove, the new language shall not be formalize as one part of the English language.