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  • Hi ladies and gentlemen, my name is Hridhaan and I welcome each one of you personally with

  • a very big heart on my channel, Let's Talk. Today's lesson is again a very, very interesting,

  • because in today's lesson we will talk about some recent words that have been added to

  • English dictionary. Without further ado let's get started. The first word that we have in

  • the list isbreakfast + lunch”, the technique that we are talking about today is the blended

  • technique, wherein we actually blend thefirst part of the first wordandthe last

  • part of the second word’. In the recent times you must have seen that people have

  • started coining a word and that is calledbrunch”. Branch is actually a blend of

  • these two words, ‘breakfastandlunch’. So for example if you did not have your breakfast,

  • and before the lunch started you had something let's say around 11:30 or 12:00ish and the

  • blend of these two words it is neither the breakfast nor the lunch, so it is the duration

  • is actually somewhere in the middle of breakfast and lunch, that word and that, that, that

  • vocabulary that has been coined is called, “brunch”. For example, this morning when

  • I started recording the videos for each one of you, I was so excited that I missed my

  • breakfast and decided to rather have a brunch. So something that is in the middle of breakfast

  • and lunch is called the brunch. Let's move to the next word in the blended wordsemotion

  • + icon”. Now when you would like, when you like to express your emotions, let's say on

  • a WhatsApp or a Facebook using an icon, you see those cute yellow faces that we have when

  • you use WhatsApp and for that matter Facebook that, those words are called, the blend of

  • emotions and icon and they are called, “emoticons”. Emoticons, you stress the first part of the

  • word and that is emoticons, let's move to the next word in the list of blended words,

  • blended vocabulary we have, “motor + hotel”, so we take the first part of motor and the

  • last part of hotel and the word that turns out ismotel”. What is a motel? A motel

  • is actually a place that you basically see on a freeway. Imagine that you go on a vacation

  • and there's no restaurant on the freeway and there is no hotel, now a hotel that actually

  • runs in a motor, on a freeway is called a motel. For example, recently I was vacationing,

  • I went to the Himalayas and we found a very nice motel, where we decided to relax for

  • some time and then we drove back to the place that we were, we've basically headed to the

  • place that we were going to. The next word is, “global + English”, so we take the

  • globof global and theishof English language. So language that is spoken

  • globally, all around the world is referred to asglobish”. So there are a lot of

  • phrases in English language that are quite famous globally and those phrases are basically

  • referred as the globish phrases. So if somebody says, hey dude the English that you're speaking

  • at the moment is wrong, then you can say if that phrase is globally used that it's called,

  • globish English. Let's move to the next one, “situation + comedy”. This is quite an

  • interesting one and you must have seen and heard this word quite a lot of times, we take

  • thesitoff situation and the first part of comedy, this gets a little different

  • because we've been using only the last part in the previous ones, this is the exceptional

  • case here, we use thesitof situation andcomof comedy and it changes to

  • sitcom”. So you must have seen a lot of shows on Netflix or for that matter other

  • OTT platforms, those particular shows that are quite funny and they have situation as

  • well, those shows are called sitcoms. The next one in the list of blended words issmoke

  • + fog”, it blends together and it becomessmog”. What is the meaning of smog? Imagine

  • in the, during the winters early morning wintertime, there's a lot of pollution as well in the

  • city and it's quite foggy as well, so you do not see there's a lot of fog on, on the

  • road, you actually say, there's a lot of smog on the road. One very important thing that

  • we need to understand here is, the pronunciation of this word. A lot of people stretch on the

  • ‘O’ sound, we do not have to stre, stretch on the ‘O’ sound, we just have to keep

  • it short, and we say smog, one more time, we say, smog. Next word in the list of blended

  • words isspoon + forkif you've gone to a good restaurant, you must see that there

  • is actually a fork, that actually, also looks like a spoon because it's, it's got only two

  • pointers to it, that fork is actually referred to as a brother of spoon, where, wherein it

  • can be used for both the purposes as a spoon, as well as a fork, that becomes a “Spork”.

  • So thespof spoon and theorkof fork, becomes Spork. So the next time when

  • you see a utensil like that, you have a word for it that is called a Spock. So don't get

  • confused, do you call it a spoon or a fork? It is actually a Spock. Next one iswork

  • + alcoholic”. This is quite a commonly used phrase and it is, it is quite globish as well,

  • which we take thework’, the entire word together andaholicof the first part,

  • again the exceptional case here as sitcom and it becomesworkaholic”. So somebody

  • who likes to do a lot of work, it does not means that somebody who drinks alcohol, somebody

  • who's an alcoholic and who works quite a lot is workaholic, no! It does not mean that.

  • It means somebody who likes to do a lot of work, somebody who's always working all the

  • time, and does not want to possibly take rest, a person basically who likes doing a lot of

  • work, that person is called, a workaholic. For example I consider myself as a workaholic,

  • because I make all of these videos for you guys to make you, and to help you understand

  • English better, so I consider myself as a workaholic, are you a workaholic or do you

  • want to be a workaholic? Find for yourself. The last one in the list of blended words

  • is a “breath + analyzer”. Can you guess what this word could be? I'm gonna write it

  • for you until then, please think what could this word be? And so it is called a “Breathalyzer”.

  • Now what is a Breathalyzer? Breathalyzer is actually a device that helps people check

  • on their breathing pattern. People with asthma basically use Breathalyzer one that, when

  • they are in the absence of the doctor just to check if everything is alright. The last

  • one in the list of blended words iscamera + recorder”. Now you see, I'm recording

  • this video for each one of you, now here is a word for such a function where we are using

  • a device which does the work of camera and as well as a recorder and that is called,

  • camcorder”. A camera that has the function of recording of film as well, that is called

  • a camcorder. This brings us to the end of the list of blended words that we've been

  • talking about today, let's quickly go through them, brunch, emoticon, motel, globish, sitcom,

  • smog, Spork, workaholic, Breathalyzer and camcorder. This brings us to the end of the

  • list of blended words that we have spoken about in this lesson. I hope you use these

  • words and add them to your current set of vocabulary. I think each one of you for joining

  • me on this video and I hope you subscribe to my channel, because I'm going to bring

  • some amazing content for each one of you, in the recent future. Have a great day ahead

  • and God bless.

Hi ladies and gentlemen, my name is Hridhaan and I welcome each one of you personally with

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