Erin Mc Kean: 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 wont 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 to create more ways for us to understand one another. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world s leading thinkers and doers giv
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