Основы теории английского языка. Листунова Е.И. - 17 стр.

manize, demobilize, denationalize, denaturalize; some forms seem un-
necessary, and some are ugly, as dechristianize, depauperize, and de-
synonymize... The only argument in favour of some of these forms is
that they allow us to do in one word what would otherwise require three
or four and that seems to be a great virtue in the modern world.
      Two other groups of words, originally scientific, but which
have spread into the common vocabulary, both show developments of
modern science. One of the recent aims of the scientist has been to
replace human labour by the efforts of the machine, and this is
reflected in our vocabulary by a number of recent words with the
prefix auto-, and of newly-formed compounds with the first element
automatic... Man’s conquest of space, and his ability to perform cer-
tain actions over long distances, is shown in the large number of
words containing the prefix tele-.
                                         J.A. Sheard. The Words We Use.
      3. Now that the first steps in this direction [exploration of space]
have been taken there exists already a whole technical vocabulary that
is being created in answer to the demands of the new science of space
travel, itself dependent on rocketry. The cosmonaut (a word invented
by the Russians and displayed by them on placards and banners on
the day of Gagarin’s first flight in 1961) travels in a capsule (like
probe this is an old word put to a new use) blasted off from a launching
pad. The space suit he wears had a name in science fiction even before
it existed in reality. At present these spacemen have confined them-
selves to orbiting round the earth but they hope in due course to set
up space platforms or space stations from which to conduct explora-
tions of the moon and planets. All this vocabulary really forms a
subject in itself ranging from the retro-rocket, which so to speak puts
on the brakes for the space traveller, to the emotional indoctrination
training which teaches him to endure both fear and endless boredom
as he hurtles towards Venus or Mars.
                        Brian Forster. The Changing English Language.
      IX.
      In works of Science Fiction we find many unusual formations
(occasional words) which with the progress of science are likely to
become neologisms and, with time, full-fledged members of the En-
glish word stock. Examine the following lists and explain the meanings
of the words:

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