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How new words enter a language
Don’t be too hard on Granny if she has no idea what a meme is; the word didn’t exist until the 1970s.

How do new words enter a language, and where have we gotten some terms we no longer consider foreign?

This TED-Ed animation based on a talk by educator and anthropologist Marcel Danesi explains a few possibilities.



video by: TED-Ed

How new words enter a language #video

How new words enter a language
Don’t be too hard on Granny if she has no idea what a meme is; the word didn’t exist until the 1970s.

How do new words enter a language, and where have we gotten some terms we no longer consider foreign?

This TED-Ed animation based on a talk by educator and anthropologist Marcel Danesi explains a few possibilities.



video by: TED-Ed

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