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It's not that it's bad neologism. It's that neologism is bad in general. :-)



Every word you just wrote was a neologism at some point.


New words are bad in general? How so?


Change is hard and expensive. The juice needs to be worth the squeeze.

Far too often those introducing new words (or even worse redefining existing ones) are playing power games with their in groups best interests in mind, not the rest of us.




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