08 the meaning of facebook(中職英語高考模擬試題及答案(2))

ge that way?' What I am saying is, we should be less quick to decide that that change is terrible, we should be less quick to impose our likes and dislikes about words on other people and we should be entirely reluctant to think that the English language is in trouble. It's not. It is rich and vibrant and filled with the creativity of the speakers who speak it. In retrospect, we think it's fascinating that the word 'nice' used to mean silly, and that the word 'decimate' used to mean to kill one in every 10. We think that Bean Franklin was being silly to worry about 'notice' as a verb. Well, you know what? We're going to look pretty silly in a hundred years for worrying about 'impact' as a verb and 'invite' as a noun. The language is not going to change so fast that we can't keep up. Language just doesn't work that way. I hope that what you can do is find language change not worrisome but fun and fascinating, just the way dictionary editors do. I hope you can enjoy being part of the creativity that is 買粉絲ntinually remarking our language and keeping it robust. So how does a word get into a dictionary? It gets in because we use it and we keep using it, and dictionary editors are paying attention to us. If you are thinking,'But that lets all of us decide what words mean,' I would say, 'Yes it does, and it always has.'  Dictionaries are a wonderful guide and resource, but there is no objective dictionary authority out there, that is the final arbiter about what words mean. If a 買粉絲munity of speakers is using a word, and knows what it means, it's real. That word might be slangy, that word might be informal, that word might be a word that you think is illogical or unnecessary, but that word that we're using, that word is real.

這是一段十七分鐘的TED演講，但是這短短的十七分鐘卻花費了我四個小時來記錄，一是自己手太慢了，另外一個一句一句聽一句一句的記錄，2455個單詞。感嘆講者的不易的同時，也深深的意識到自己的某些問題，加油，會越來越好的。

What makes a word real? It's us. We use it and we use it regularly. It's we make the word real.

就好像：世界上本沒有路，走的人多了便有了路。

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