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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".

Prefixes, almost by definition, don&#039;t occur as separate words. I mean, that&#039;s what they&#039;re for: they&#039;re for modifying a word, occurring before a word, and making it change it’s meaning - happy, un-happy, national, de-nationalise. They don&#039;t normally occur as words on their own. You&#039;ve perhaps heard &#039;anti&#039; - he&#039;s very &#039;anti&#039; something, a-n-t-i. Or he&#039;s very &#039;pro&#039; something - well they&#039;re prefixes which have just suddenly become different words. Now they&#039;ve been around for a very long time.  A recent one, absolutely fascinating one, is this prefix &#039;dis&#039;: d-i-s, or sometimes d-i-s-s. It&#039;s from the word &#039;disrespect&#039;, to show disrespect to somebody, from the noun, by insulting language, or insulting behaviour. It means basically to put somebody down.  It&#039;s American, black English slang, and it&#039;s been around since about 1980. And what&#039;s happened, it&#039;s come to be used as a full verb. You can say now &#039;I dissed him&#039; - to diss, I dissed him - or &#039;stop dissing her&#039;. And that&#039;s the interesting thing, that it&#039;s the prefix that&#039;s become the verb! It&#039;s a most remarkable development.  prefix - předpona to occur - objevit se to modify - změnit, pozměnit he&#039;s very &#039;anti - velký odpůrce he&#039;s very &#039;pro&#039; - zastánce they&#039;ve been around - existují disrespect - neúcta, nezdvořilost, urážka to show disrespect (to put somebody down) - urážet, zesměšňovat to diss - urážet, zesměšňovat, vysmívat se it&#039;s been around since - existuje od…   

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