Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Blog 1!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/61119/13-words-year-other-countries

 I picked the article because I thought it was really cool how they found the 13 words of the year from other countries. We really only hear about words that make our list, for example, SELFIEEE! So it’s nice to hear about what word was “trending” in different countries this past year. It is related to language because it has the words from different countries in that country’s language. For example in Denmark, the word of the year was mobilpay which is a money transfer app that was created. It is now being used as a verb-I mobilpayed him yesterday.
  
       The thing that I found most interesting about the article was the part about Germany. There were other words that were nominated for word of the year and one of them was Generation Kopf unten which means generation head down because of everyone looking down at their devices. I find it interesting how dependent not just the United States, but other countries have become on their hand-held devices.
  
There was really nothing to agree or disagree on, it was more of just an article to read to     inform/entertain.

  This article definitely makes me want to keep an ear out for the words that will make the       list in the future.

    I think my topic affects the world because like me, I read the article and it makes me want to be more aware of what may be going on globally. Also, seeing this list of words and how they came to be can help us to take a look into another country and maybe infer some things about them. An example I have is another word from Germany, Goetzseidank, which means Thank God, it is in reference to Soccer player Mario Goetze, who scored to win the World Cup for Germany. From that word, I can infer that Germany is bonkers about soccer! I mean you kind of have to be when you say thank god and it’s in reference to the guy who helped bring victory to your team!

Here’s to another great year full of new words!  

4 comments:

  1. This is something I had never really thought about, which seems silly since I know our language is always expanding, so why wouldn't other languages be constantly adding to their own language? And sad that our generation always has their "head down".

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  2. The article proves that slang is becoming more prominent and soon these slangs end up in our dictionary which could be a good thing or a bad thing.

    But Germany is on point with the whole "generation head down." I mean who doesn't look down on their phone while they are walking or eating at a restaurant. It is just great to see that the United States is not the only one with the problem!

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  3. I really like how global slang is and to hear that people in other countries are as addicted to technology as the U.S. is pretty funny. It seems like we are all the same around the world but we just don't realize it.

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  4. Nice article, It was pretty interesting that in a place far from ours the word "selfi" exists, and is being used. Is it the social media informing other countries of trending words orrr ?

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