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<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial">There
can be political reasons. The French resist the Americanization of
their</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial">language
far more than the Germans. At the time of Frederick the Great it
was</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial">chic in
Germany to speak FRENCH. In certain domains the influence</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial">is
obvious: in fashion and gastronomy (words from French), banking and technology
(from</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial">English).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial">Fritz</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"><FONT face="Arial"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="750472721-22032006"></SPAN><FONT face="Arial">B<SPAN class="750472721-22032006">ill Poser wrote: </SPAN></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><TT>What to me is perhaps more interesting is why it is that
languages<BR>create words for some new items and not for others. Why, for
example,<BR>does Carrier have no term other than "TV" for television,
which<BR>has been around for several decades, but a native formation
(meaning<BR>"that by which things are warmed quickly") for "microwave oven", a
more<BR>recent introduction?<BR><BR>Bill<BR></TT>
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