How are new words created? Well most words are created through combination of words such as the common slang in junior PAS community “Bromance” which is the combination of brother and romance. It basically means friendship between brothers, nothing homosexual is involved in this (I hope). Anyway, when new words that are creative and happen to fit into a culture well, the word will stay and become popular which eventually become real words in the future. I guess this is how new languages are created. In the old days, people have no fixed grammar or syntax usage due to the lack of written record. As technology and communication improved, people started to put down their speech with alphabets or character that enable speeches to pass down from generation to generation. When people have slightly different accent for the same word, the way people spell it will become different and eventually theses words become separate and contain different meaning that is suitable for each different culture. Words are also created when people tried to simplify words, in now days due to text messages. We created words such as LOL, ROFL and other words that is basically an acronym for a phrase. However, as time move on with more people recognizing and acknowledging the meaning of these so call symbols, soon they will also become words and be put in a dictionary.
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