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Linguistics Report on Group members: 490200127 Judy Yang 490200153 Nicole Yu 490630396 Nadia Lee 490630519 Bruce Cho I. Introduction: Borrowing words is a kind of way to expand language. One of the most common sources of new words is the process simply labeled borrowing, that is, the taking over of words from other languages.(Yule 65) Borrowed words might occur because one language need to translate or carry meaning that the language itself don’t have from other languages. There are two different borrowed types- transliteration and loan-translation (calque). What I want to emphasize is those two type are very similar so that we need to study them carefully. Transliteration is very common way to create a word of foreign origin. It just transliterates the sound of words. And the sound carries the special meaning or implication in this language that transliterates the words. For example, Dink in Chinese is 頂客. Actually those two Chinese words are no meaning in Chinese language, but because transliteration carried new meaning in Chinese. So we could know that 頂客 means the couple has double income and no kid. Loan-translation (claque) is a direction translation of elements of a word into the borrowing language. In this way, we just literally translate the loanwords into another language. For example, Supermarket is typical model. Super literally means 超級 and market literally means 市場 in Chinese. Maybe we have those words originally, but we don’t have this kind of combination of two words. Also, the combination of two words is a new style market in Chinese. Many countries use the borrowed way to expand their language. It is easier than creation of a new word. II. Design: We try to record and notice every dialogue in our daily life. And we write those down to make a compare list so we could analyze the structure of those words. Because borrowed forms is a