<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 9:14 AM mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
And I often wonder.. Why do I need to go through this, trying to find<br>
all the ways the meaning of a word has been expended, while we could<br>
have a new word instead and be done with it ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">It helps the language feel more natural to have words that have multiple related meanings. In English, for example, "cell" can mean a prison cell, a biological cell, or a cell phone, all of which derive from the original notion of a small chamber. It does make things a little more complicated, but that's languages for you. (At least no word in Klingon has as many meanings as something like the German "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Zug#Noun">Zug</a>"...) It's also more of a challenge to the language designer to see what existing words could be used to express a concept, and provides an opportunity to think of clever ways to have related words.<br></div><br></div></div></div>