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Programme 25:  saddo

Keep Your English Up to Date – Angličtina Youradio Talk

Držte krok s rychle se vyvíjející angličtinou! Známý lingvista David Crystal Vám pomůže "Keep your English up to date".

Saddo. There are quite a few familiarity markers in English – words which take on an ending to make the word sound much more familiar, or everyday, or down to earth. Ammunition becomes &#039;ammo&#039;; a weird person becomes &#039;weirdo&#039; aggravation becomes &#039;aggro&#039;. They like it in Australia a lot – "good afternoon", they don’t say that so often, but &#039;arvo&#039;, &#039;arvo’&#039;is the abbreviation for afternoon in Australia. And in the 1990s you had this rather interesting word &#039;saddo&#039; – that’s the adjective sad with this ‘o’ ending, spelt with two d’s: s-a-d-d-o. I  t came in as a kind of a rude word really, a mocking word for somebody seen as socially inadequate, or somehow rather unfashionable, or contemptible in some way. You might hear somebody say, "oh, he’s a real saddo" or "she’s a real saddo" – it can be for male or for female. It’s from the word sad of course, from oh, way back in the 1930s, where &#039;sad&#039; here doesn’t mean miserable, it means pathetic, and that was a use of sad that came in at that time. It’s a sense in other words that’s been developing for quite a long time. In actual fact, you can take that sense of sad and trace it all the way back to Shakespeare, although he never said "saddo".  down to earth - zemitý ammunition – ammo - munice weird person – weirdo - divný člověk aggravation – aggro - hněv saddo - politováníhodný ubožák to mock - zesměšňovat, dělat si legraci sad - smutný, ubohý rude word - nadávka, sprosté slovo contemptible - odporný miserable - smutný pathetic - ubohý, žalostný, patetický   

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