III. State the nature and the role of terms.

1. “… don’t you go to him for everything more serious than a appendectomy of the left ear or strabismus of the cardiograph.” No one save Kennicott knew exactly what this meant, but they laughed… (S.L.)

2. “Good,” Abbey said suddenly. He took up a specimen – it was an aneurism of the ascending aorta – and began in a friendly manner to question Andrew… “Do you know anything of the history of aneurism?” “Ambroise Pare,” Andrew answered, and Abbey had already begun his approving nod, “is presumed to have first discovered the condition.” (A. C.)

3. At noon the hooter and everything died. First, the pulley driving the punch and shears and enemy wheels stopped its lick and slap. Simultaneously the compressor providing the blast for a dozen smith-fires went dead. Finally old Peter was left standing dead struck – as if it had never happened to him before, as if he wasn’t an old miser for work – specifically, piece-work, always trying to knock the extra piece before the power went. (S. Ch.)

4. … he rode up to the campus, arranged for a room in the graduate dormitory and went at once to the empty Physics building. (M. W.)

5. “They’re real!” he murmured. “My God, they are absolutely real!”

Erik turned. “Didn’t you believe that the neutron existed?”

“Oh, I believed, “ Fabermacher shrugged away the phrase. “To me neutrons were symbols, n with a mass of mn = 1.008. But until now I never saw them.” (M.W.)

IV. Define the pattern of creation and the function of the following individual neologisms.

1. She was a young and unbeautiful woman. (I. Sh.)

2. I’ll disown you, I’ll disinherit you, I’ll unget you! and damn me, if ever I call you back again! (Sh.)

3. (She was)… waiting for something to happen. Or for everything to un-happen. (T. H.)

4. She was… doing duty of her waitresshood. (T. H.)

5. Every man in his hours of success, tasted godhood. (M. W.)

6. … tiny balls of fluff (chickens) passed on into seminaked pullethood and from that into dead henhood. (Sh. A.)

7. His youngness and singlemindness were obvious enough. (S.)

8. But Miss Golightly, a fragile eyeful, … appeared relatively unconcerned. (T. C.)

9. For a headful of reasons I refuse. (T. C.)

10. It is the middle of a weekday morning with a stateful of sand and mountains around him. (A. M.)

11. His father… installed justly to make little boys feel littler and stupid boys aware of their stupidity. (St.)

12. You are becoming tireder and tireder. (H.)

13. “I love you mucher.”

“Plenty mucher? Me tooer.” (J. Br.)

14. Oh, it was the killingest thing you ever saw. (K. A.)

15. “Mr. Hamilton, you haven’t any children, have you?”

“Well, no. And I’m sorry about that, I guess. I’m sorriest about that.” (St.)

16. Sometimes we are sleepy and fall asleep together in a corner, sometimes we are very hungry, sometimes we are a little frightened, but what if oftenest hard upon us is the cold. (D.)

17. You’re goddamndest boy. (I. Sh)

18. She’s the goddamest woman I ever saw. (St.)

19. I’ve been asked to appear in Rostand’s wonderful fairy play. Wouldn’t it be nice if you Englished it for us? (K.)

20. So: I’m not just talented. I’m geniused. (Sh. D)

21. There were ladies too … some of whom knew Trilby, and thee’d and thou’d with familiar and friendly affection while others mademoiselle’d her with distant politeness and were mademoiselle’d and madame’d back again. (G. du M.)

22. Mrs. Tribune “my deared” everybody, even things inanimate, such as the pump in the dairy. (W. D.)

23. A luxury hotel for dogs is to be opened at Lima, Peru, a city of 30,000 dogs. The furry guests will have separate hygienic kennels, top medical care and high standard cuisine, including the best bones. Also on hand at the “dogotel” – trees. (M. N.)

24. … the country became his Stepfatherland. (E.)

25. A college education is all too often merely sheepskindeep. (E.)

Colloquial stratum of words

V. State the function of slang in the following examples, also paying attention to the morphological and syntactical characteristics of slang units, semantic and structural changes some of them underwent to become a slang expression.

1. “I’m the first one saw her. Out at Santa Anita she’s hanging around the track every day. I’m interested: professionally. I found out she’s some jock’s regular, she’s living with the shrimp, I get the jock told Drop it if he don’t want conversation with the vice boys: see, the kid’s fifteen. But stylish: she’s okay, she comes across. Even when she’s wearing glasses this thick; even she opens her mouth and you don’t know if she’s a hillbilly or an Okie or what, I still don’t. My guess, nobody’ll ever know where she came from. (T. C.)

2. Bejees, if you think you can play me for an easy mark, you’ve come to the wrong house. No more ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! (O’N.)

3. A cove couldn’t be too careful. (D. C.)

4. I’ve often thought you’d make a corking good actress. (Dr.)

5. “When he told me his name was Herbert I nearly burst out laughing. Fancy calling anyone Herbert. A scream, I call it.” (S. M.)

6. I steered him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a wall and gave him a frisk. (O’N.)

7. “I live upstairs.”

The answer seemed to explain enough to relax him. “You got the same layout?”

“Much smaller.”

He tapped ash on the floor. “This is a dump. This is unbelievable. But the kid don’t know how to live even when she’s got the dough.” (T. C.)

8. It is. But not so much the hope of booze, if you can believe that. I’ve got the blues and Hickey’s a great one to make a joke of everything and cheer you up. (O’N.)

9. “George,” she said, “you’re a rotten liar… The part about the peace of Europe is all bosh.” (Ch.)

10. She came in one night, plastered, with a sun-burned man, also plastered… (J. O’H.)

11. “Your friend got stinko and Fane had to send out for a bouncer.” (J. O’H.)

12. “That guy just aint hep,” Mazzi said decisively. “He’s as unhep as a box, I can’t stand people who aint hep.” (J.)