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  • 667@lemmy.radiotoComic Strips@lemmy.worldGloves
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    2 months ago

    The beauty of agglutination. New words can be created without new vocabulary, sometimes regardless of technological changes. In Esperanto, there is no dedicated word for “cell phone”, but a word is needed to refer to these devices, so it’s “poŝtelefono”, or “pocket phone”.