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In response to "sadly though, that fact has limited our desire to create new words -- nm" by tRuMaN

Really? There are so many new words and new uses for old words arising yearly. English is fantastically dynamic.

Posted by TWuG Feb 9 '12, 12:48

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Pseudo-related: in reading David Copperfield, I found in the first chapter how Dickens wrote "*headtilt*" back in the day: - TFox Feb 9, 12:55
I was gonna say, English words routinely have ten or twenty synonyms. - con_carne Feb 9, 12:54
'And yet, oh and yet, all of us spend our days saying the same things to each other, time after weary time, living by clichaic, learned response:' - znufrii Feb 9, 12:51

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