[dsr_]

One key characteristic of natural languages is that when they don't work, people invent and share new words.

kili sike loje isn't enough to distinguish cherries from cherry tomatoes, red grapes, cranberries, red currants, red plums or red apples -- every one of which is a perfectly reasonable thing for me to put on a shopping list.

And so you'll note that we have the words tomato, grape, cranberry, currant, plum and apple.

Now, French has a language academy to decree what is proper, and English --

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Davis Nicoll

A language which isn't useful will either change or be abandoned. Natural languages almost always change.

[int_19h]

Languages often invent terms by combining existing words, though, and then some combinations become standard. Indeed, your own list has "red grapes" and "red currants"! For some other prominent examples, consider "pineapple" or "pomodoro" ("pomi d'oro").