Re: Word of the Year
- From: Jim Lawton <usenet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:10:47 GMT
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:11:14 GMT, "Chess One" <innes8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>"Dena Jo" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> According to Merriam-Webster, based on online lookups, the #1 Word of
>> the Year for 2005 was:
>>
>> 1. integrity
>>
>> Followed by:
>>
>> 2. refugee
>> 3. contempt
>> 4. filibuster
>> 5. insipid
>> 6. tsunami
>> 7. pandemic
>> 8. conclave
>> 9. levee
>> 10. inept
>>
>> --
>> Dena Jo
>
>Interesting list. I observe very simple and useful words in English are
>unknown, avoided or misused, including simple 3- and 4-letter ones such as;
>apt, wen, nous, flip, nice
I don't think you can say that about English as a language. If you were to
direct your comment at American politicians or British businessmen, you might
have a case.
>
>though non-native English speakers, mostly European contintental
>correspondents, use them since presumably they find them in their
>dictionaries, and prefer them to more ostentatious expressions, which are no
>more exact.
Are you saying that there are shorter words which might replacer the ones in the
list? Tell us what they are.
Your list of short words contains none with which I am not entirley familiar. If
you are not a native speaker of English and you find other foreigner's English
easier to understand than that of mother-tongue speakers, that probably only
means that you are not completely fluent. It was certainly my experience when I
lived in Finland that I understood the circumscribed Finnish of foreigners
easier to cope with than the rapid fire full-blooded native delivery.
Jim
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