Hello, everyone. Welcome to big data and language. Today we will learn about another register, which one is intimate register. So are you ready? Let's get started. The intimate register is the communications, the private communications, and also the language used by lovers and it is reserved for close family members or intimate people. It is also the language used in sexual harassment as well. So the most intimate form of a language and the best avoided in public and professional situations. So in the previous lecture, I mentioned that you might not want to use casual register for your academic writing or any formal situation. This intimate register, this one you should avoid to use in the other professional or casual, formal, and consultative register. So for example, this intimate register could be used between husband and wife, or a boyfriend and a girlfriend, or siblings, parents and the children. So let me give you an example. This is a dialogue between two friends. A said, "TJ, what's going on?" The other friend said that, "Not much, just taking it easy today. Work's been killing me lately," and A said, "What do you say we head downtown and grab a coffee at the Starbucks." B said, "I've had way too much caffeine lately. I wouldn't mind grabbing something to eat though. Would you be up for that?" So in this conversation, you might notice that there are several intimate register characteristics such as TJ. So instead of calling the full friend's name, you might friend's full name, you might want to just use the initial. So for example, instead of something you might want to say like SM or like SP, something like that. What's going on? That one is a very casual expression. That means what are you doing now? So instead of what are you doing now, the more the casual, very informal way, what's going on. Taking it easy, that means relaxing, and the work's be killing me, this one is causing you the stress. So been killing me, this one is intimate register linguistics. So you never ever want to say in formal or professional situation. If you are really close to your professor or your boss, maybe you might want to use this kind of expressions, but in general, this expression is used in intimate and casual register only. Also way too much caffeine. Way too much, that one is another intimate register characteristics expression, the language expression that we can use in intimate register. Would you be up for that? This one is another expression that we can use the daily conversation when you talk to your very close friend or family. Let me give you another example. "It's nice day today, so we could get something at Kaimaru. We've got a patio so we could sit outside." "Sure, do you want to workout after?" "I've already gone? Wasn't great though. Six out of 10 at best." "Just come with and do some cardio. I think you could afford to shed a few more pounds." "We'll see. Let's meet at Kaimaru at two," "K, later." So this time, you've found that the second excerpts of A that wasn't great though. This one is not complete sentence. So this incomplete sentence, it could be used, that's totally fine to use in this intimate register. However, in the formal register or frozen register, you might not want to use it, and other readers or listeners, they recognize that expression as a grammatical error. Also, you can see that at two. So we do not know whether that at two means 2:00 AM or 2:00 PM, but because it's a conversation in intimate register, so you just say just two, that's fine. Instead of two o'clock or 2:00 PM, 2:00 AM. The last express of B said that, "K later." So this one, the original meaning is that, okay, see you later. But because they are very close to each other, so they just want to make all the expressions simple as possible. Instead of okay, just K, and later, so instead of see you later, B just said later. Even though B said, "K, Later," A probably totally understand what B said, that means, okay, see you later. So even though you use slangs or any other informal expressions in intimate register, there is not really a big problem between the speakers and listeners to understand their conversation. So far we've learned above five different types of registers. The first one was the frozen register, and the second one is a formal register, third, consultative register, and fourth, informal register, and fifth, the intimate register. So here is the rule of language you use. One can usually transition from one language register to an adjacent, the connected one without encounter repercussions, which means that maybe you can use sometimes formal register and consultative registered together. It could be in your whole conversation that could be connected and also the casual register and intimate register, yet that could be some overlap. However, skipping one or more level is usually considered inappropriate and even offensive. So for example, you use the formal register, but suddenly you use the intimate register. Think about that when you have a conversation with your boss very politely, and so you use the formal register, but somehow you use all the slangs and any other informal expressions, then your boss probably felt that you are not polite or rude or offensive. So you need to be careful. Moving register to other register, that's totally acceptable, but if you skip one or more levels, then that is very unnatural and awkward situation. So today we've learned about the fifth register, which one is the intimate register. So next time we will talk about parts of speech. Thank you for your attention.
