[Lexicog] Words that are absent in particular languages

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

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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