According to The Independent, 'Nerdic' is the fastest-growing language in Europe,
avoiding arguments on the fine line that divides language and dialects, Jerome Taylor claims that more than 100 new words were added to the Nerdic vocabulary in the past 12 months, more than three times the number the Oxford English Dictionary added to the English language.
Here is a sample of words created by the technology industry:
Android= phones featuring Google's Android software
Mash-up= when two elements from different websites are combined
Wimax= powerful wireless internet which can cover whole cities
Egosurfers= those people who spend all day looking themselves up on internet
Too fast to follow? Can't catch up with the speed of things?
Worry not! Most words (specially those used to describe older technology) have already disappeared!
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Marina Velez
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Marina Velez
Cambridge, United Kingdom
I am a qualified teacher of Spanish as a foreign language having studied at Universidad Nebrija, Madrid and I hold a Cambridge Certificate English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). I have taken Social Anthropology and Social Psychology at the Institute of Continuing Education University of Cambridge. I have taught English and Spanish as foreign languages extensively on a private basis, at primary schools, in companies and at institutes of adult education (e.g. Volksuniversiteit in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where I taught English Literature). I have trained teachers of foreign languages and given TEFL seminars to local teachers in Nepal. I am also an artist, a mother of three, a coordinator for the NGO INFONepal, have travelled extensively and lived in different countries (Argentina, Spain, USA, The Netherlands and UK) all of which has given me the patience, creativity, socio-cultural awareness and sense of humour I employ in my lessons. I also enjoy English Literature, archery, jazz and medieval music and flamenco dancing.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
I am a qualified teacher of Spanish as a foreign language having studied at Universidad Nebrija, Madrid and I hold a Cambridge Certificate English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). I have taken Social Anthropology and Social Psychology at the Institute of Continuing Education University of Cambridge. I have taught English and Spanish as foreign languages extensively on a private basis, at primary schools, in companies and at institutes of adult education (e.g. Volksuniversiteit in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where I taught English Literature). I have trained teachers of foreign languages and given TEFL seminars to local teachers in Nepal. I am also an artist, a mother of three, a coordinator for the NGO INFONepal, have travelled extensively and lived in different countries (Argentina, Spain, USA, The Netherlands and UK) all of which has given me the patience, creativity, socio-cultural awareness and sense of humour I employ in my lessons. I also enjoy English Literature, archery, jazz and medieval music and flamenco dancing.
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