LING 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: College Board, Indo-European Languages, Language Change
22 Apr 2016
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The limits of my language are the limits of the world . The english language has an enormous number of words no matter what method we use to count. The majority of the words in english are not native english words but either borrowed or formed from borrowed elements from latin, greek and. French - about 80% of the entire english vocabulary! These roots are dependable and unchanging and serve as the key to understanding the vocabulary of english and many of the modern. An understanding of the core meaning of each root provides a tool for unlocking the meanings of thousands of latin and greek based words in. English, opens doors to new knowledge and provides all of us with a more powerful and useful vocabulary, especially terminology. While it may be true that practically any concept can be expressed in any language, a language can make the process easier or harder by providing or not providing words.
