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Every family has a secret language. Experts call it ‘familect.’
The memory and meaning in our weird, family-specific words, often born of the wild minds of children.
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A "familect" is a family's own private language. The word comes from a blend of "family" and "dialect."
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Familects often gain vocabulary through the words young children create as they learn to talk, when these words are adopted by the family.[1][2] Familects also gain vocabulary through slips of the tongue and word invention.[3]
Word family
A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made with suffixes and prefixes[1] plus its cognates, i.e. all words that have a common etymological origin, some of which even native speakers don't recognize as being related (e.g. "wrought (iron)" and "work(ed)").[2] In the English language, inflectional affixes include third person -s, verbal -ed and -ing, plural -s, possessive -s, comparative -er and superlative -est. Derivational affixes include -able, -er, -ish, -less, -ly, -ness, -th, -y, non-, un-, -al, -ation, -ess, -ful, -ism, -ist, -ity, -ize/-ise, -ment, in-.[1] The idea is that a base word and its inflected forms support the same core meaning, and can be considered learned words if a learner knows both the base word and the affix. Bauer and Nation proposed seven levels of affixes based on their frequency in English.[3] It has been shown that word families can assist with deriving related words via affixes, along with decreasing the time needed to derive and recognize such words.[4]
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