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INTERNATIONAL
MOTHER
LANGUAGE DAY
Rossella Mele, Alexander Cekin, Alex Jin
Hao, Claudio Pennacchio, Cristina Zhou

TABLE OF CONTENTS
01
Neologism
Alex Jin Hao
Bulgarian
Alexander Cekin
Italian
Rossella Mele
04 05
02 03
Cristina Zhou Claudio Pennacchio
Chinese English

Every year, tens of thousands of words pop
into existence. Sometimes we invent new
things and need words for them. Other
times we decide something is important
and that it needs a name. Or we simply get
bored of old words and update them.
Generally, if the public takes a liking to a
word, it begins to enter general usage.
These words are called neologisms.
INTRODUCTION Hi!

Neologism
Definition
01
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➢ A neologism is a newly developed or coined word at has started to fall into
mainstream usage.
➢ When the word is fully accepted into everyday usage, it typically gets picked
up by dictionaries and is technically no longer a neologism.
➢ Neologisms can take many forms, and may be entirely new, or formed of
existing words. To give you an example, "mansplain" combines the words
"man" and "explain".

➢ However, neologisms don't have to be constructed language. They can also
be an existing word that has developed.
➢ The word "influencer" was initially used as "a person or thing that influences
another", but has taken on a new meaning. In modern times, an "influencer"
typically refers to someone who promotes products or services on social
media in order to influence people to but them.

Everyday we can speak anywhere
from 4,000 to 20,000 words.
Whilst most of these will be words
we already know, we often pick up
neologisms without realising.
How did neologisms
come out?

In general, neologisms arise out of mass media, the
Internet, cultural changes or simply word of
mouth. They usually come about when new
situations emerge, or on the back of trends and
societal developments. This can sometimes
result in unusual words with beautiful meanings,
or words that quickly disappear after a limited
lifespan.
where do words come
from?

Bulgarian
02
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In bulgarian there are neologisms that are "home" adopted. That
means that they are completely correct and usable but not written
anywhere officially.

сотаджия гербаджия
For example, some of them
are used for people doing
some job: this comes from a
widely spread security
company called СОТ and
means a person that works
there.
Another type are people
supporters of particular
political parties: a person
that supports ГЕРБ(the party
which has been on top for the
last 15 years).
гейтак
This term is mainly used as a
offence. Because of our violent
nature we use a lot of curse words.
This example means a homosexual
person, gay, but in a very offensive
manner.

Italian
03
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Nowadays in the Italian language we absorbed many of English
words that regards internet, such as : Spoilerare, freezare,
twittare, killare, taggare etc...
Although we started to gain neologisms in our language from the
fascist era where Mussolini and D'annunzio found alternatives for all
the words they did not consider as italian

Transvolata Acquavite
At the beginning it was "raid"
and it means airplane
At the beginning it was
"whisky"
Cornetto
At the beginning it was "croissant"

Chinese
04
你好

逆行者 锦鲤
Refers to a person who walks in reverse, and is often used to refer
to a strong person who stands up in the face of adversity, such as
the most beautiful "retrograde person" in the fight against Covid
19. Countless "rebels" who have emerged from ordinary people
guard their lives with their lives, profoundly interpreting the
connotation of the heroic spirit of the new era.
Koi is originally a kind of ornamental
fish. Due to its price and its colour,
allegedly people say that this type of fish
would bring luck. Therefore the word is
used to describe people with great luck.
Implied people's wish for a better life.

English
05
Hi !

aeroir agalmics
“The concept of terroir will be
familiar to most Edible
Geography readers; recently, we
also explored the idea of
‘merroir,’ or tasting place in sea
salt. But what about aeroir —
the atmospheric taste of place?”
"Agalmics is an approach to (or more
properly, perhaps, an alternative to)
economics which acknowledges that
non-scarce goods will always be
copied, whether legally or illegally:
‘With our information technologies
copying data is the easiest thing in the
world, so it would be foolhardy to try to
fight it.’”
sordophone
Earlier today, we asked for help coming
up with a word for that thing where a
word is innocent in its native language,
but sounds like a dirty word to foreign
speakers. And not only did we come up
with a word — “sordophone” — but
also, a pretty impressive list of words
that travelers should be careful about
saying.”