AIBU?
at a mum telling her son off for 'flirting with all them women' today.ObiWan · 20/05/2011 14:27
Do you allow her to read broadsheet newspapers and keep up with current affairs etc?
What feckwit says is right, and reading widely and being exposed to literature of all genres is the sort of long term prep that encourages success in situations like this.
Even if the context escapes them, they are less likely to be wrong-footed and panic if they can even dimly recall having come across a particular word before.
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missed the point entirely here! I think some DC would be aboe to construct the word, agree with obi that reading (appropriate) adult literature and broadsheets is good set up for this.animula · 20/05/2011 14:31
I may be completely wrong but I think that "trafficking" is an old worls - people have "trafficked" in various goods, for a long time. So long that it had certainly acquired a sort of slippage by the time I was a youngster, so that, for example, poets "trafficked in images", and so on.
The current slippage, to human trafficking and sexual trafficking (I'm only guessing here, but I think that is why you are doubting that an 11 year old might have come across the term??) is pretty recent - and is a slippage that is intended to "shock" - ie. highlight and foreground the idea of humans as commodities, crossing borders.
I think that usage has kind of "kleenexed" older usages ...
CogitoErgoSometimes · 20/05/2011 14:37
I remember being given a reading test when I was about six or seven. I was a good little reader and rattled through all the lists, no problem. Then I hit the word 'champagne'. I think I'd heard of champagne but never seen it written down before. Of course, standard english phonic rules don't apply to french words so that was the end of my reading test. Similarly, I expect some 10 year-olds will have come across the word 'trafficking' before and some won't. No biggie, is it?
CoffeeIsMyFriend · 20/05/2011 22:13
Is this part of non verbal reasoning for 11+? There are 'rules of thumb' for making words, cant remember the 'rule' at moment, will try to remember to ask DS in morning.
Something along lines of you wouldnt get a noun and verb to make 1 word or a moun and adjective... sorry, trying to recall and cant - tried my best to block it all out!
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