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Love this whole idea... did read @clayboyn's post yesterday and found myself inspired to write about each question raised... then got sidetracked by... *"oh, shiny!"* but now I am reminded again. Seems like there were more "deep thoughts" types of posts when I first joined, six months ago... Oh... on "English" and words... what I find interesting is how *many* words there are in the English language. I'm Danish by birth, and English is *not* my native tongue although it has been my primary writing language for 30+ years. English seems to create "new" words for many concepts; in Danish "new" words are typically compound words created out of existing words... a bit hard to explain... but for example, we might have had a blanket (*"tæppe"*), then somebody put a similar piece of textile on the floor and in English we call it a "rug," while in Danish they took the *existing* words for "floor" and "blanket" and made a rug a "floor blanket" (*"gulvtæppe"*). So if you extract all Danish words to their "root form" there's only about 1/4 as many words as in English. The many "similar sounds" in the English language is part of what gave rise to the truism (among non-native speakers, I suppose) that *"English is easy to learn, but hard to master."*
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To take the word blanket and add floor to it creating gulvtæppe makes so much more logical sense then to make up a whole new word. I homeschool my children and by far the most difficult time was in teaching them how to read. There are so many exceptions, basically so many words you simply have to memorize because they follow no reasoning. I've been fascinated by the concept of words ever since my husband pointed out just a couple of simple things to me. The word spell. Why would they use a word that means incantation for stringing letters together to make words. Or really, letters are symbols, so stringing symbols together. We spell or are spelling words. That struck me. Also, a television term- programming. Stay tuned for your regular programming. Thought of in a certain way that's rather creepy :)
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