# 60 word gelivable

     Today I’m going to blog about a special word, it’s an English word, but few Americans know the meaning while almost every Chinese know it. “Gelivable” Hah hah, how many of you understand the meaning?

     Google the word “gelivable”, we can see that “gelivable” means something is cool, or cooperative. And “ungeliable ” means just the opposite. Actually, this world is created by Chinese, and is an English alphabet of a Chinese word which is “geili” in form of pingyin. Separate this word, the first part “gei” means give or to be given, and the last part “li” means power or force. So the word “geili” means “be capable of”. For instance, if you earn 30 credit a quarter and get the GPA of 4.0 in total, you will be extremely “geili”.

     This world appeared in China since last year, and widespread across the whole country in shortly several months, it’s seems like everyone use the “geili” instead of “cool”, “wonderful” and “awesome”. And the word is really depicted the plot vividly.

     But how it comes to the word “gelivable”? According to my memory, this word is appeared in early this year on RenRen, which is the Chinese Facebook. According to yahoo, “some people, with nothing better to do, take the chance to translate it into English. Since “geili” sounds like “geli” with the “e” reduced to schwa, they invented the word “geli”. And Chinese does not have part of speech, they created “gelivable” the adjective, and “gelivability” the noun.

     Is it interesting to hear a English word created by Chinese people?