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 Every
year, we can encounter newly coined words. The world-famous British author J.K. Rowling also
invented many new words in
her wildly popular Harry Potter
books. But there is a secret behind the birth of
these words.
The bestselling author has invented hundreds of words including Muggle and Quidditch
for the the wizard world of the Harry Potter books. Such words have
become pop culture vocabulary. Recently, she confessed in an interview
that she had a hard time to come up with these words.
She even learned teen slangs to understand teen
culture!
Then, who taught her teen slangs? To keep up with the always-evolving slang of
the younger generation, Rowling
was “tutored by a real professional” which is her
eldest daughter, Jessica. “Language isn’t and shouldn’t be static.
Newly-coined words really interest me,” she said.
 Rowling
admitted that she got wrong
loads of newly-made words and abbreviations that are commonly used by teenagers.
So her daughter Jessica tutored her on teen slangs! “I remember the
first time I heard a teenager say ‘LOL.’ It means ‘laughing out loud.’
Some of today’s abbreviated slang is quite ugly, but some words seemed interesting to me,”
Rowling said.
“I’m a middle-aged woman. And as
a writer, I find it very interesting. But it would be embarrassing if I started
trying to use it too fluently. Sometimes you’ve got to accept you don’t belong in that teenage group,”
she added with a smile. |
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