word stock

[busra332]

How can we enlarge word stock of a given language?

 

[Anglika]

Welcome to the forums.

Do you mean how can you enlarge your vocabulary?

 

[BobK]

How can we enlarge word stock of a given language?

Why should "we" want to? Or is this an academic query?

If it is, the same question is a good place to start. People need new words, or change the meanings of old ones (both consciously an unthinkingly), because something new is going on - a new country, a new environment, new technology, travel, conquest, discovery, exploration, experiment...

Think about all those things.


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[BobK]

PS This might be a good place to start: Neologism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[busra332]

I mean how we can enlarge the word stock of any language without borrowing from other languages. What should be done to protect any language of any nation.. ? Besides acronyms,compounds, back formation etc.,I wonder the other ways.. I expect that there will be some interesting ideas..

 

[Anglika]

I don't believe that this kind of restriction can ever work. It is not natural in any language to have no influences from other languages. Certainly the French - despite their Academie's attempts to prevent "pollution" - use words from other languages freely.