Punita Singh - Language Your Mind

Language Your Mind! Punita G. Singh punitaontoast@ gmail.com

ENGLISH AROUND THE WORLD
In a Mumbai restaurant: OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, AND WEEKENDS TOO.
Cocktail lounge, Norway: LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.
In a Nairobi restaurant: CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITERS RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER.

English – oh English
Irregularities
Peculiarities

Singular Plural
Man Men
Pan ?
Mouse Mice
House ?
Box Boxes
Ox ?

Pronunciation
Foot Boot
But Put
So Do
Read Read
Lead Lead

Play on verbs
Mind your language
Language your mind
Nouns can be verbs
Verbs can be adjectives
Past tense rules

Where did all these languages come from?

Where did modern English come from?

Languages live
Borrowings
Adaptations
Transformation
Evolution

You know more than you know
Making implicit knowledge explicit
Transfer of knowledge across context
Logical inference, induction and extrapolation
Awareness of similarities
Recognition of cognates

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Blut Feder Garten Hund Haar Machen Milch Mutter Schuh Wasser bird covering

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Blut Feder Garten Hund Haar Machen Milch Mutter Schuh Wasser bird covering red body fluid bird covering garden canine animal head fluff create something white baby food female parent Shoe basic liquid

Parlez-vous Français?

Parlez-vous Français? absence absorption accent accident accusation action addition admiration adolescent agriculture applicable attention avenue banquet boutique bouquet buffet cigarette clarification classification commercial communication costume couple cottage crime culture

Every word has a history
Etymology: the study of word origins
Language from lingua = tongue
Glossary, Dictionary, Polyglot
Idiom from id = itself / own / particular
Interesting word histories
Scrupulous Shampoo

Inglish boley-toh …
Indian contributions to the English language:
avatar, bazaar, brahmin, bungalow, cashmere, chutney, chakkar, cummerbund, curry, divan, guru, jodhpurs, karma, khaki, mantra, mogul, nirvana, pariah, pundit, pukka, pyjamas, sahib, sherbet, thug, verandah, yoga

Inglish boley-toh …
and less obvious ones:
bandana, bandicoot, bangle, Blighty, candy, caravan, catamaran, cheroot, chintz, cot, cushy, dinghy, dungaree, ginger, godown, juggernaut, kedgeree, mulligatawny, punch, shampoo, toddy

It’s Greek to me And Latin too
Telephone
Telescope
Television
Telepathy
Telecast
Telecommute
Telegraph

One and Many
Mono
Uni
Poly
Multi

Same and Different
Homo
Hetero

Above, below, through and beyond

Thesaurus
Treasury / storehouse
Synonyms
A rose by any other nym?
In other words:
Brilliant Bright Lively
Talkative Quiet Calm

sine qua non
ipso facto
glasnost
Zeitgeist
hoi polloi
non sequitir
caveat emptor
gaffe
et al.
fait accompli
Quid pro quo Link the expression on the left to the correct meaning on the right
openness
spirit of the times
buyer beware
and others
the common people
accomplished fact
illogical conclusion
by that very fact
blunder
Something essential

Linguistic devices
Rhyme and rhythm
Triples
Alliteration
Puns / word play
Visual words
Vivid descriptions
Metaphors, similes, analogies

Figuratively speaking
Metaphor
A is B
Simile
A is like B
Analogy
A is to B what C is to D

Metaphor
She is sunshine on a dreary day
Simile
She is like sunshine on a dreary day
Analogy
She is as bright and warm as sunshine is on a dreary day

LANGUAGE ZOO!
The early bird catches the worm
It’s a bear market these days
Ants in your pants!
As the crow flies

LANGUAGE ZOO! BEAR SNAIL BIRD BLACK BOOK CAT’S DONKEY EAGLE GUINEA HORSE RAT WHITE CROCODILE CASH COW PIG POWER HUG BRAIN EYE WHISKERS TEAR ELEPHANT RACE WORK SHEEP WORM MAIL

Metaphorically speaking

Punita Singh - Language Your Mind

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