Go ahead, make up new words!

This woman was a lexicographer, who makes dictionaries. And her job as
a lexicographer is to try to put all the words possible into the
dictionary. As she said her job is not to decide what a word is; that is
people’s job. So she called on people to create words. And she tell us
some ways to create it.

The first way is the simplest way. Basically, steal them from other
languages. Linguists call this borrowing. We usually take words for
things that we like, like delicious food. We took "kumquat" ქამქუათ from
Chinese, we took "caramel" from French and so on.

So another way that you can make words in English is by squishing

სქვიშინგ two other English words together. This is called
compounding. Words in English are like Lego: If you use enough force,
you can put any two of them together. We do this all the time in
English: Words like "heartbroken," "bookworm," all are compounds. So
people should go ahead and make words.

Another way that you can make words in English is kind of like
compounding, but instead you use so much force when you squish the
words together that some parts fall off. So these are blend words, like
"brunch" ბანჩ is a blend of "breakfast" and "lunch." "Motel" is a blend of
"motor" and "hotel."

You can also make words by changing how they operate. This is called
functional shift. You take a word that acts as one part of speech, and
you change it into another part of speech.

Another way to make words in English is back-formation. You can take a

word and you can kind of squish it down a little bit. So for example, in
English we had the word "editor" before we had the word "edit." "Edit"
was formed from "editor." Sometimes these back-formations sound a
little silly: Bulldozers bulldoze, butlers butle and burglers burgle.
ბულდოზერს ბულდოუზ, ბატლერს ბატლერ ენდ ბარგელს ბარგლ
Another way to make words in English is to take the first letters of
something and squish them together. So National Aeronautics and Space
Administration becomes NASA.

And the main reason Why should we make words is this that every
word is a chance to express your idea and get your meaning across. And
new words grab people's attention. They get people to focus on what
you're saying and that gives you a better chance to get your meaning
across. So Go ahead, start making words today.