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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:48AM

Cranberry Morpheme

A morpheme that has an unclear or nonexistent meaning and only appears in complex words with a free root, e.g., the “cran” in cranberry has a proposed etymological source, but it is no longer meaningful in the language. (morphology)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:49AM

Creole

A pidgin that has become grammaticalized by children who now speak it as their native language, or as one of their native languages (in the case of multilingualism). (sociolinguistics)

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013 @ 11:49AM

Creolist Hypothesis

The hypothesis that varieties of English spoken by Black Americans are descended from the English-based creoles spoken by slaves (and turn from the English-based pidgins spoken by West Africans, which married English lexemes to some degree with African grammars). (sociolinguistics)

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Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 11:58AM

Crowdsourcing

Creating a translation over the Internet using many translators.

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