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Originally Posted by HarryT
My question to you as writers, is this: would you have the courage to invent a new word if there was no existing word to describe the concept that you were looking for?
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I have, to describe a facial expression. Getting the spelling right was harder than actually creating the word, because qu- seems to expect that a vowel follows it, and the only vowel that was close was w.
The problem isn't so much the need for new words, as whether or not a writer is capable of risking criticism for creating a word instead of explaining the concept in a more awkward but technically correct way. Innovation is more likely to be seen as incorrectness.