Newly coined words

Exercise 4 Translate the words given below:

1. laptop - ……………………………………….

2. know-how ……………………………………

3. stay-in ………………………………………..

4. sit - in ………………………………………..

5. buy-in ………………………………………,,

6. shut-down ……………………………………

7. brain –drain ………………………………….

8. has-been ……………………………... …….

9. stay-at-home …………………………………

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Exercise 5. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the words in

italics.

1. About 65 Americasians arrived in Thailand yesterday with their relatives on their way to their new homes in the United States.

2. The first generation of baby-boomers in Britain and the U.S. was born in late forties-early fifties.

3. Slowly and unevenly, a ‘can-do’ attitude is beginning to replace the inertia in the trade unions.

4. Capital flight is now becoming less accessible from foreign creditors.

5. If the merger boom is now nearing a close, will it be followed by a demerger boom?

6. E-commerce has become wide spread in the U.S.

7. The companies are now joining their forces because the potential synergy is evident.

Exercise 6. Translate the following words into the Russian language.

1. DENGLISH - ………………………………………………..

e.g. Many billboards have slogans in Denglish – a mix of English and German.

2. GOOMBY – ………………………………………………………….

-a person who hopes for the removal of some dangerous or unpleasant

feature from his or her neighborhood based on the phrase ‘Get out of

My Back Yard) GOOMBYism – the attitude of such a person.

e.g. The present case may be described as GOOMBYism for ‘get

out of my back yard, ’ if you stay here, you’re going to pay for it

3.LULU - ……………………………………………………

a real estate development or other construction to which the local

residents are opposed (based on the phrase ‘locally unwanted

land use’)

7. METROSEXUAL - ……………………………………………………….

a dandyish narcissist in love not only with himself, but also his

urban lifestyle

8. NARCO – TOURIST -……………………………………………………

A person who travels to a foreign country to sample the local

drugs or the indigenous narcotic plants

9. NEWATER - ……………………………………………………………

exceptionally pure water recycled from waste water generated by

showers, sinks and toilet.

10. WARMEDY - ………………………………………………………………

a comedy that features warm-hearted, family-oriented content

11. WEBLISH (n) -……………………………………………………………..

a form of English peculiar to some online documents and

communication, the characteristics of which include the use of

all lowercase letters, errors in speckling and grammar, and

informal tone.

e.g. The popularity of e-mail is destroying the normal rules of

spelling and grammar leading to ‘weblish’, a lower case

global language littered with mistakes.

12. BEEPER – SITTER …………………………………………………….-

a person who assumes responsibility for recording another

person’s beeper (=pager) messages.

13. BRANDALISM - ……………………………………………………….

the defacement of public building and spaces by corporate ads,

logos, and other forms of branding (brand +vandalism)

14. DADROCK -………………………………………………………………

music performed by aging rock stars; also music that id strongly

influenced by groups from the 60’s and 70’s.

15. HOSPITALIST - ………………………………………………………………

a doctor who practices only in a hospital

16. WEARABLE (n) ……………………………………………………………..

a computer designed to be worn as an item of clothing or as

a wardrobe accessory.

17. WORDROBE - ……………………………………………………….

the words and phrases that comprise a person’s vocabulary

18. BRAIN GAIN - ……………………………………………………….

an increase in the number of highly skilled intellectual and

and technical workers (cf. Brain drain)

19. WI – FI ………………………………………………………………….

20. P2P ………………………………………………………………………

21. W2K ……………………………………………………………………..