Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!

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 6 ways to make new words in English, from compounding to “verbing,” in order to make language better at expressing what we mean, and Read MoreRead More



from FilmmakerIQ.com http://filmmakeriq.com/2014/12/erin-mckean-go-ahead-make-up-new-words/