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21st CENTURY ENGLISH VOCABULARY Pearson (21世纪英语词汇皮尔森)
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21st CENTURY ENGLISH VOCABULARY
Sue Engineer
English constantly renews itself by borrowing, coining, and combining words to fit new ideas
and new developments, and that process has never been more apparent than in this, the last
decade of the 20th century. Social and technological change, political and economic
developments, new ways of working, leisure and sport, fashion and popular music, medicine,
psychology, ecology, and even new types of crime all produce new words to express new
ideas. In compiling the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, one of our tasks was to
ensure the inclusion of such new, up to the minute words and uses of words. To do this, we
monitor the ways in which the English language develops and behaves being illustrated in new
ways, day by day.
EXTENDING THE LANGUAGE
Paul Meara, in the last issue of this Review, pointed out how English readily forms new words
by combining two. This linguistic phenomenon continues to take account of new developments
in technology, as the following entries from the new edition of the Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English indicate:
Internet n the Internet a computer system
that allows millions of computer users around
the world to exchange information
cyberspace n [U] a word from SCIENCE
FICTION, used to mean the place where
electronic messages, information, pictures etc
exist when they are sent from one computer to
another: We didnt meet in San Francisco we
met in cyberspace.
Inter, net (or network, of which this net is a short form), and space are all words in common
usage. Cyber has leapt from obscurity; chiefly through the work of the author William Gibson. It
was originally part of the technical term cybernetics, the study of automatic control systems,
and was first adopted in science fiction with cyborg, a cybernetic organism, or high grade semi
human robot. Gi
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