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And my job as a lexicographer is to try to put all the words possible into the dictionary.

Now, sometimes people use this kind of rules-based grammar to discourage people from making up words.

But when it comes to words, they're like, "Don't!

Words are great.

I want you to make as many new words as possible.

And I'm going to tell you six ways that you can use to make new words in English.

["Go rob other people"] (Laughter) Linguists call this borrowing, but we never give the words back , so I'm just going to be honest and call it stealing.

We usually take words for things that we like, like delicious food.

We also take words for cool things like "ninja," right?

So another way that you can make words in English is by squishing two other English words together.

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," "sandcastle" all are compounds.

So go ahead and make words like "duckface," just don't make duckface.

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" is a blend of "breakfast" and "lunch."

You can also make words by changing how they operate.

Another way to make words in English is back-formation.

Another way to make words in English is to take the first letters of something and squish them together.

So it doesn't matter how silly the words are.

They can be really good words of English.

So the words don't have have to sound normal, they can sound really silly.

Why should you make words?

You should make words because every word is a chance to express your idea and get your meaning across.

And new words grab people's attention.

Go ahead, start making words today, send them to me, and I will put them in my online dictionary, Wordnik.

MR: We used "Mary Had a Little Lamb" because those are said to be the first words that Thomas Edison spoke into his phonograph in 1877.

There are words that are virtually forbidden, like the word "time," the word "future," the word "wish".

How words are empowering them with a dignity they had never known, that they couldn't even imagine.

And I'll leave you with these words from Goethe.

In other words, they mastered the art of doing more with less, which is the essence of frugal innovation.

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