BLOG #5

1) Word: Championship

etymology :championship 1825, "position of a champion," from champion + -ship. Meaning "competition to determine a champion" is recorded from 1893.

 

morphemes: Champ-      ion-                     ship

                     (stem)      (suffix)             (stem)

                     Free          bound                free

                    lexical      derivational        lexical

 

2) Sentimental

etymology: sentimental 1749, "pertaining to or characterized by sentiment," from sentiment + -al (1). At first without pejorative connotations; meaning "having too much sentiment" had emerged by 1793 (sentimentalist).

morphemes: sentiment-      al

                    (stem)            (suffix)

                    free                 bound

                  lexical               derivational

3)Babysitter

etymology:babysitter also baby-sitter, 1914, from baby (n.) + agent noun from sit. Short form sitter is attested from 1943.

morphemes: baby-          sitt-         er

                    (stem)        (stem)       (suffix)

                    Free            free           bound

                   lexical         lexical       derivational

4) Unpredictable

etymology: unpredictable 1857, from un- (1) "not" + predictable (see predict)

morphemes: Un-              predict-         able

                   (prefix)         (stem)            (suffix)

                   bound             free              bound

                  derivational     lexical         inflectional

5)Political

etyomology: political 1550s, "pertaining to a polity, civil affairs, or government;" from L. politicus (see politic (adj.)). Meaning "taking sides in party politics" (usually pejorative) is from 1749. Political prisoner first recorded 1860; political science is from 1779 (first attested in Hume). Political animal translates Gk. politikon zoon (Aristotle, "Politics," I.ii.9) "an animal intended to live in a city; a social animal."

morphemes: Politic-          al

                   (stem)            (suffix)

                   free                bound

                  lexical             derivational

BLOG #4

1.  In my opinion i feel social network affects our language alot. The reason i feel this is the fact that millions of peoples have cell phones and the internet at their finger tips. The reason i say cell phones can change our language is the fact that teens alone can send Average 2,270 text messages alone in a Month!! thats incredible. to believe that we onl;y used to send Letters maybe once a week if we were lucky. This is changing our language because we text and are in a hurry so we shorten words and use slang. Noone really speaks proper english on cell phones and its killing a language that is growing with us.
2.  In my honest opinion it is reducung the need to know English. When people talk online or through text messages like i said before, we kill words and only abviviate it to our true desire such as later, people type "L8R" or even say  i love you people write "ILY." The language we use today will never compare to the language our four fathers used before us. The language they used actually made you look professional and feel good about yourself. Todays language makes you dumber. Its a sad thing because i have a younger brother and to think this is the world he is going to grow up in and the knowledge he is going to learn, its not very pleasing at all! People around the world wont need to learn english because if they know the basics they just have to sound out the words and they will know what we are saying such as this"PPL", that abreviation means people. English language is being killed more and more each day!