SpongeBob SquarePants (character)

This, along with his repetitive talking and loud dolphin-like laughter makes him a huge annoyance to others, especially Mrs. In the long run, however, usage primarily determines the meanings of words in English, and the language is being changed and created every day. SpongeBob is very easily overexcited about almost everything, like many different or simple/regular tasks, or even things he doesn't know what they mean (like when Squidward invited him to a strike, SpongeBob celebrated for it although he never heard the word before). Because of the broad use of dictionaries, and their acceptance by many as language authorities, their treatment of the language does affect usage to some degree, even the most descriptive dictionaries providing conservative continuity. Although a good-natured and loving sponge, many characters seem to avoid him. Merriam-Webster is subtle, only adding italicized notations such as, sometimes offensive or nonstand (nonstandard.) American Heritage goes further, discussing issues separately in numerous "usage notes." Encarta provides similar notes, but is more prescriptive, offering warnings and admonitions against the use of certain words considered by many to be offensive or illiterate, such as, "an offensive term for..." or "a taboo term meaning...". Although he is an adult, he has a very childish nature. The prescriptive/descriptive issue has been given so much consideration in modern times that most dictionaries of English apply the descriptive method to definitions, while additionally informing readers of attitudes which may influence their choices on words often considered vulgar, offensive, erroneous, or easily confused.

He dislikes scary things and stinky things. But the softening of usage notations, from the previous edition, for two words, ain't and irregardless, out of over 450,000 in Webster's Third in 1961, was enough to provoke outrage among many with prescriptivist leanings, who branded the dictionary as "permissive.". However, he has been known to shout and curse (even "obscenities") when angry or frustrated. Although much is made of these differing views, they usually apply to a very small number of controversial words, while not affecting the vast majority for which there is common agreement. SpongeBob will rarely knowingly do wrong or harm to anyone and never without remorse. While descriptivists would charge that prescriptivism is an unnatural attempt to dictate usage or curtail change, prescriptivists would argue that to document, without judgment, usages which they consider improper or inferior sanctions those usages by default, causing the language to deteriorate in practice. He has a buck-toothed grin, tremendously expressive face and square body that complement his pure and good nature. (See American and British English differences.) While not always accepted in the UK, the American spellings are universally understood; likewise the British spellings are not acceptable in America.

SpongeBob is extremely sweet, generous, friendly, and most of all, trusting. This is why American English now uses the spelling "color" while Commonwealth English uses "colour". He also wears a red bowtie in exchange for his necktie on special occasions, such as his house party or at the Krusty Krab telling Squirrel Jokes. Noah Webster, on the other hand, intent on forging a distinct identity for the American language, altered spellings and accentuated differences in meaning and pronunciation of numerous words. When he goes "swimming", he wears a pair of blue swimming trunks (although he still wears his underpants underneath). The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is descriptive, and attempts to describe the actual use of words. At night, he sometimes has a green bathrobe on but mostly goes to sleep with his underwear and nothing else. Dictionary makers apply two basic philosophies to the defining of words: prescriptive or descriptive.

He usually wears a pair of white briefs underneath his pants, although he has been seen wearing blue, green, and red briefs (all at the same time, nonetheless) and even pink to honor his best friend, Patrick. With these, the rest of English, and even the 4000 most common English idioms and metaphors, can be defined. As a part of the attire, his shoes are shining black, with a spheric bulge at the front (although still a part of the shoe proper, unlike the balls of the clown shoes). In English, the commercial defining dictionaries typically include only one or two meanings of under 2000 words. SpongeBob typically wears a white business shirt, red tie and brown pants, although he has been known to run naked or in his underwear. From these, other concepts can be explained and defined, in particular for those who are first learning a language. Like the rest of SpongeBob's body (excluding his eyes, mouth and brain), his hands and feet are made of sponge. The simplest dictionary, a defining dictionary, provides a core glossary of the simplest meanings of the simplest concepts.

He has six long black wiry eyelashes, and his eyes have sky-blue irises with very dilated pupils. Another variant is the glossary, an alphabetical list of defined terms in a specialized field, such as medicine or science. His arms can become variable in length and shape at will, are retractable, and can be re-grown at will. Data sets and databases collected and utilized for statistical analysis are typically accompanied by, or able to be used to generate, a list of all variable names used within the data set, as well as matters such as their meaning, values, level of measurement, length, decimal allowances, and stype (numeric, string, etc.). SpongeBob has the ability to transform into other shapes at will, absorb physical blows as well as large amounts of water, and reassemble pieces which fall off of him. Each entry has one Chinese character with information about stroke count and order, readings (pronunciations), and a list of words using that character. He has disproportionally thin and short extremities extending from his body (arms and legs), and resembles a kitchen sponge more than a sea sponge. In East Asian languages, a dictionary form for Han (Chinese) characters has developed, called Kan-wa jiten (literally 'Han-Japanese dictionary') in Japanese and Okpyeon ('Jewel Book') in Korean.

SpongeBob is an anthropomorphic, yellow, porous, sponge with a face. See also LSP dictionary. . Generally, multi-field dictionaries tend to be minimizing, whereas single-field and sub-field dictionaries tend to be maximizing. The character was designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, and is voiced by Tom Kenny. they attempt to cover only a limited number of the specialized vocabulary concerned. SpongeBob SquarePants is the principal character in the animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, which first aired in July 1999 on Nickelodeon. they attempt to achieve comprehensive coverage of the terms in the subject field concerned, or they may be minimizing dictionaries, i.e.

The Spanish theme song on the British SpongeBob DVD is not the same as the American DVD Spanish version of the theme song. Specialized dictionaries may be maximizing dictionaries, i.e. Before he was drawn like a luffa. a picture dictionary, in that it covers several subject fields such as science and technology (a multi-field dictionary), or their coverage may be more narrow, in that they cover one particular subject field such as law (a single-field dictionary) or even a specific sub-field such as contract law (a sub-field dictionary). SpongeBob wasn't always a square. A specialized dictionary may have a relatively broad coverage, e.g. The creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, Stephen Hillenburg says he didn't want SpongeBob to just be named Bob, because then people would confuse him with a piece of cheese. Specialized dictionaries (also referred to as technical dictionaries) focus on linguistic and factual matters relating to specific subject fields.

SpongeBob was originally going to be called SpongeBoy, but the name was already trademarked. For example, in a Japanese-English dictionary, the entry tsuki has the corresponding English word, moon. In dictionaries between English and a language using a non-Roman script, entry words in the non-English language may be either printed and sorted in the native order, or romanized and sorted in Roman alphabetical order. SpongeBob's character was influenced by Jerry Lewis, Pee Wee Herman, and Charlie Chaplin. In bilingual dictionaries, each entry has translations of words in another language. SpongeBob's voice is described as a combination of the mayor of Munchkinland from The Wizard of Oz and Elroy Jetson from The Jetsons. There are many different types of dictionaries, including bilingual, multilingual, historical, biographical, and geographical dictionaries. SpongeBob's name is written in the CamelCase word style. a dictionary containing the 2000 most frequently used words in the English language).

It should be noted, however, that in this case "Esponja" is the character's last name, while the "Squarepants" portion of the original english name is dropped altogether. the Oxford English Dictionary), whereas a dictionary that attempts to cover only a limited selection of words from a speech community is called a minimizing dictionary (e.g. In the Latin America version of the show, SpongeBob's name is "Bob Esponja", which is a literal translation of the English name. A dictionary that attempts to cover as many words from a particular speech community as possible is called a maximizing dictionary (e.g. In the French version of the show, SpongeBob's name is Bob L'éponge, which literally means Bob the Sponge. Dictionaries vary wildly in size and scope. In the German version of the show, SpongeBob's last name is "Schwammkopf" meaning "SpongeHead". Currently this system has prestige, but it cannot easily interrelate dialectic variations.

Sherm SquarePants, SpongeBob's uncle (also voiced by Tom Kenny). It is also used to indicate only one preferred pronunciation, such as RP or General American, for foreigners to learn the language or for domestic people to alter their dialect. Grandma SquarePants, SpongeBob's grandmother (voiced by Marion Ross). These use an accent mark that precedes a stressed syllable. Grandpa SquarePants, SpongeBob's grandfather (also voiced by Tom Kenny). Finally, totally new phonetic alphabets such as IPA were devised, especially for those languages like French which have an official pronunciation. SquarePants, SpongeBob's mother (voiced by Sirena Irwin). Some dictionaries before 1970 added an accent mark of one dot atop the letter "a," which specifies this choice, rather than either one definitively.

Mrs. For example, most Americans pronounce the first vowel in one group of words such as "ask" and "dance" in one manner, while it is standard for the English to pronounce them in a consistently different manner. SquarePants, SpongeBob's father (voiced by Tom Kenny). These had the additional capacity for accepting regional differences, especially in a federal society. Mr. For languages that have no official standard pronunciation, like English or German, a system of respelling was introduced with the letters given diacritics, also known as accent marks, (e.g., macrons, tildes, breves, circumflexes) that do not occur in ordinary writing, to assist the reader in pronouncing the words. Regular languages such as Spanish do not need any special marking for this purpose.

This is analogous to the tonal marks for Chinese or the accent nucleus for Japanese. Here the accent mark followed the stressed syllable. The earliest was simply to indicate the syllables that have greater stress using accent marks, such as in Samuel Johnson's eighteenth century dictionary. Three different methods are common.

Dictionaries have had a variety of means of expressing the means of pronouncing words in those languages that are not entirely phonetic. a list of animals all together in one topic. Before alphabetical listings, dictionaries were organized by topic, i.e. The first English alphabetical dictionary came out in 1604 and alphabetical ordering was a rarity until the 18th century.

(See collation for more information on linguistic sorting).. Due to the nature of Chinese characters, linear sorts are particularly unsuitable for Chinese dictionaries. Words and characters in ideographic writing systems such as Chinese are sorted according to one of numerous schemes based on the components, number of strokes, overall shape, or pronunciation of each character. Today, dictionaries of languages with alphabetic and syllabic writing systems list words in alphabetical or some analogous phonetic order.

. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book. Many dictionaries also provide pronunciation information; grammatical information; word derivations, histories, or etymologies; illustrations; usage guidance; and examples in phrases or sentences. In some languages, words can appear in many different forms, but only the lemma form appears as the main word or headword in most dictionaries.

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