For my final essay I would like to discuss words that have been re-invented, or coined through social media outlets such as Tik-Tok, Twitter, Instagram, etc. I am very interested in words that social media introduces to us that were coined, and how they are now used in everyday language for some people or even as slang. There are many words like “cheugy” and “sheesh” that were not a thing until after the Tik Tok world heard these words and eventually everyone began to use them to describe life or people in general. There are other phrases like “down bad” or even “sneaky link” that originally the two words had their own meanings but together it brings on a whole new meaning altogether.

For this final essay I can use Tik Tok as a platform and other social media platforms to see how people have coined new words and what words have become trendier than other words and even see if the original uses of the words are the same as what these words are being used to say today. I will also be using other sources to see what these words mean to other people and how they are used differently. I can also survey the class and see how they use some of these words and see if it’s different from the original meanings or if some people use them differently altogether.

A major issue I know I will have with this topic is that some words were coined and then became so popular that everyone starts using it immediately and it may be hard to find the original person that coined the word.

Ladyfinger- (exocentric, it is not a type of lady or a finger, it is a food), [[lady]N [finger]N] N

Chicken parmesan- (endocentric, chicken =head), [[chicken]N [parmesan]N] N

Applesauce- (endocentric, apple= head), [[apple]N [sauce]N] N

Cupcake-(exocentric, it is not a type of cup, it is a cake but based on the word you wouldn’t be able to know that), [[cup]N [cake]N] N

Hazelnut- (endocentric, hazel=head), [[hazel]N [nut]N] N

1. accept–> acceptance

[[X]V ance]N

[[accept]V ance]N

Judge–> judgment

[[X]V er]N

[[judge]V ment]N

Communicate–> communication

[[X]V er]N

[[communicate]V ation]N

2. Friend–> befriend

-be, [be [X]N,A] V

[be [friend] N,A] V

Marry –>marriage

-iage, [[X]N,A iage] V

[[marry]N,A iage] V

Title–> entitle

-en, [en [X]N,A] V

[en [title]NA] V

3. accept–> acceptance, friend–>befriend

Beaccept, Befriendance

Judge–> judgement, marry–> marriage

Judgementiage, Marriagement

Communicate–>communication, title–> entitle

Encommunication, Entitlation

When these word from output 1 and output 2 are combined by adding more affixes and suffixes, the words become not real words meaning that they have no further meaning, nor can they be used by people and be easily understood. In every word listed above not once did combining output 1 and output 2 give a word that has a meaning and can be considered well formed, because of this we know that by adding these outputs together it will most likely never work.