Task 46

Identify the word-formation methods with the help of which these new words are built:

a) prefixation;

b) suffixation;

c) conversion;

d) word-composition;

e) alphabetic abbreviation;

f) acronymic abbreviation;

g) clipping;

h) blending;

i) back-formation;

j) postpositivation.

1. reskill, v (to retrain workers in the skills required by a modern business)

2. LAN (local area network: a system of linking together computers, usually in the same office or building, so that they can communicate and share resources)

3. cable up, v (to (cause to) become connected to a cable television system)

4. emoticon, n (a sideways smile face, :-), or similar combination of symbols, as ;-), a winking face, or :-(, a sad face, used to communicate humour, sarcasm, sadness, etc., in an electronic message; from emotion and icon)

5. laptop, n (a portable, usually battery-powered micro­computer small enough to rest on the user's lap)

6. enviro, n (an environmentalist)

7. browse, n (an instance of reading or surveying data files, especially across a computer network)

8. DVD (an optical disk that can store a very large amount of digital data, as text, music, or images)

9. sequelize, v (to make a sequel to: to sequelize a hit movie)

10. zootique, n (a pleasantly landscaped zoo featuring animals in natural-style habitats, and comfortable fa­cilities for those in a spectating situation)

11. mouse potato, n (a slang term for a person who spends an excessive amount of time in front of a com­puter, especially one who uses it online)

12. POSSLQ, n (a person of the opposite sex sharing liv­ing quarters, especially a live-in partner or flatmate)

13. caffeinated, adj (containing caffeine, having had caf­feine added; from decaffeinated)

14. TV-14 (a television program rating advising parents that a program is unsuitable for children under the age of 14)

Task 47

Read the sentences and decide how the underlined occa­sional words (nonce words) are formed.

1. I went to the post-office, and as I stood on the steps, umbrellaless, hesitating before plunging into the slushy road, a little, hesitating voice seemed to come from under my elbow (K. Mansfield).

2. Cooper, a psychology professor, and Waffes, a script writer, start by defining stress factors: everything from "hurry-sickness", environmental ill-health and be­reavement to family pressure, bureaucracy and low self-image (Independent).

3. There was a momentary inside-out feeling as his ship and himself for one moment of non-space and non-tirne, became non-matter and non-energy, then reas­sembled itself instantaneously in another part of the Galaxy (I. Asimov).

4. Worker to his friend: "I am taking a honey-day vaca­tion this year. You know, this is when you stay home and the whole time your wife says, 'Honey, do this and Honey, do that. " (A. Joke).

5. We therefore decided that we would sleep out on fine nights; and hotel it, and inn it, and pub it, like re­spectable folks, when it was wet, or when we felt in­clined for a change (J.K. Jerome).

6. Two men pass me, each carrying a grasshopper-legged sprinkler (W.P. Kinsella).

7. OK, he is quietly charming and good-lookingish... (Cosmopolitan). 8. That guy really whatevers me (Internet).

9. Some of Matthew's questions were puzzling me consid­erably - not only by their un-Matthew-like character, but because, now that Chocky's existence was ac­knowledged, Matthew did not always present the ques­tions as his own (J. Wyndham).

10. To look at Montmorency you would imagine that he was an angel sent upon the earth, for some reason withheld from mankind, in the shape of a small fox-terrier. There is a sort of Oh-what-a-wicked-world-this-is-and-how-I-wish-I-could-do-something-to - make-it-better-and nobler expression about Mont­morency that has been known to bring the tears into the eyes of pious old ladies and gentlemen (J.K. Jerome).