Re:On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1979)
by Kim_Bruning on Sunday September 20, 2020 @06:25AM
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Actually making compound words works in many natural languages by itself. It's just obscured in English due to its nature as a near-creole: it has lots of loan-words all over the place, so it's less obvious how you can mix-and-match. (And it's less obvious how the loan words themselves might have been mixed and matched in the first place)
In Greek, Latin, French it's much easier to make compound words already.
Dutch does it a bit too, and German is quite famous for it. People actually make up words on the spot, and other people can easily infer the meaning.
I learned this the hard way while training a natural language "AI". People just do it in their day-to-day use of those languages.
In any case, I don't think you need to make up new morphemes for English, it has too many already from all the languages it's been borrowing from. Drawing from the extant pool would be quite adequate for me!
In Greek, Latin, French it's much easier to make compound words already.
Dutch does it a bit too, and German is quite famous for it. People actually make up words on the spot, and other people can easily infer the meaning.
I learned this the hard way while training a natural language "AI". People just do it in their day-to-day use of those languages.
In any case, I don't think you need to make up new morphemes for English, it has too many already from all the languages it's been borrowing from. Drawing from the extant pool would be quite adequate for me!