ENGL 292 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 anything key form class

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It is our source of knowledge on many things: we are going to start off by playing with language, lets look at some words with double meanings, news paper headlines, riddles, words refuse to hold still. Qwerty tummy illness spread through public keyboards. Jabberwocky, from alice through the looking glass understanding of grammar. To give yourself a pause (rather then using um: the tv show friends changed the way we used the word so. Germany and it meant the same thing: characteristics of language. Sept. 16/10: no one said hey, lets drop the case endings. it just happened, and we started to have a specific word order and conjugated verbs, here are some examples of words we"ve lost over the years. Fishfag (women who worked with and marketed fish) Bowfarts (on one"s back and unable to rise) Fribbler (someone who loved a women but wouldn"t commit) Prickmedainty (ridiculously exact in dress or carriage)

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