[Lexicog] Words that are absent in particular languages

[Fritz Goerling]

There can be political reasons. The French resist the Americanization of
their
language far more than the Germans. At the time of Frederick the Great it
was
chic in Germany to speak FRENCH. In certain domains the influence
is obvious: in fashion and gastronomy (words from French), banking and
technology (from
English).
 
Fritz
 
Bill Poser wrote: 

What to me is perhaps more interesting is why it is that languages
create words for some new items and not for others. Why, for example,
does Carrier have no term other than "TV" for television, which
has been around for several decades, but a native formation (meaning
"that by which things are warmed quickly") for "microwave oven", a more
recent introduction?

Bill


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