Blog Post #5

1.) Football
The word football comes from the phrase, in 1848 to, "to foot a bill", which means tallying the expenses and writing the figure at the bottom which is the "foot of the bill.
The use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205, and it came from the Middle English word "bal."
 Foot-                 ball
(free-bound)   (free-bound)


2.)Icecream
The word fire comes from the meaning "actions of guns", and this was used in the 14th Century.
The word man comes from the early 12th Century meaning "to furnish with a company of men."
Fire-                            Man
(lexical-bound)        (lexical-bound)

3.)Breakdance
The word break comes from the local language of Normandy "un breque" which in English means break.
The word dance doesn't have a specific origin but in French influence and arts society has become the primary definition for the word dance in Russia and in Spain.
Break-                       dance
(functional-lexical)  (functional-lexical)

4.)Headphone
The origin of the word head comes from the word behead, or it was also used to say "head of the table".
The origin of the word phone originated from the word tele, which became telephone (something you can communicate on).

Head                           phones
(bound-inflectional)  (free-inflectional)

5.)Cellphone
The origin of the word cell comes from a man named Robert Hooke looking through a microscope at thinly cut piece of cork.
The word phone was also originated from the word telephone as I stated for the word headphone.
Cell                           phone
(free-bound)            (free-lexical)

Blog Post #4

1.) How do you think the rise of social networking affects language use?
The rise of social networking affects languages because no one reads newspapers, magazines, or books everyone reads their news by some kind of technology, wheather it be through a computer, a phone, or a television. Many people chose to get their news through the web because then they don't have to pay for a magazine or a newspaper. Getting information and news from your technological device saves you money and it is always at your convenience. Pretty soon people talking face to face will become extinct everything will be computerized and no one will be able to actually speak to someone without communicating with them through technology. There are so many new sites out such as facebook, blogging, and twitter, and a few years back we had myspace.

2.) Does the spread of the Internet and other technologies create a larger need for English knowledge around the world, or reduce its necessity?

I think that the spread of Internet and other technologies reduce English knowledge around the world because with the internet today and the phone devices that we have you can do anything at the snap of a finger. There are so many websites you can go on to get the information that you need and our phones have so many different kind of apps to help us discover what we need.