How could anyone make a word out of these lousy letters?

嗯。谁能从这些讨厌的字母中造出一个词来呢？

[David] And onomatopoeia, where you make a word that sounds like what the word's effect is.

- [大卫] 还有拟声词，你可以在其中创建一个单词，这听起来像是单词的效果。

When they're used at the end as a suffix, they create adjectives. They make a word an adjective.

当它们在末尾用作后缀时，它们会创建形容词。他们使一个词成为形容词。

Despite its simplicity, however, the maxim leaves us with one open question: What makes a word needless?

然而，尽管它很简单，但这句格言给我们留下了一个悬而未决的问题：是什么让一个词变得不必要？

You can make a word form chart in a note book or wireless device and write a sentence example for each form.

你可以在笔记本或无线设备上制作一个词性转换表格，并为各种词性造一个例句。

Return them to me.' Her voice came out as a dry whisper, but nobody else dared make a word as she spoke.

把它们还给我。她的声音听起来干巴巴的，但没有人敢在她说话的时候出声。

Many linguists think that what really makes a word, a word, has to do less with how it's written and more with how our brains process it.

许多语言学家认为， 真正造就一个词、一个词的因素，与它的书写方式关系不大， 而与我们的大脑如何处理它关系更大。

And the other thing is, sometimes we think language is about understanding the meaning of a word, but I believe language is about making a word meaningful for yourself.

另一件事是，有时我们认为语言是关于理解一个词的意思， 但我相信语言是关于让一个词对你自己有意义。

In the first place, language as you know it is a slow affair: letter by letter strung out to make a word, and words to make a sentence, the result of a linear thought pattern.

首先，正如你所知，语言是一件缓慢的事情：一个字母一个字母串起来组成一个词，一个个词组成一个句子，这是线性思维模式的结果。

What Leo is doing is using the sound " schm" (schm), which is very common in Yiddish words, and attaching it to English to create a word to be funny, to make a word sound like as if it were Yiddish.

Leo 所做的是利用意第绪语单词中很常见的发音“schm”（施姆），并将其附加到英语中， 创造一个有趣的词，让一个词听起来像意第绪语。