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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
I really, really dislike attempts to directly push new words in general. Either a word catches on because you use it, or it doesn't. Attempts to deliberately define the language is one of the reasons why we're speaking English, not French.
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It seems fair enough to me to propose new language - not that I was being serious with my particular taurocoprologism. To attempt to mandate what language is used, to legislate even - which is what I assume you're referring to wrt the French, is a very nasty idea. Language should be free to evolve - but people need to suggest things from which the fittest survive.
What this thread was about was finding language to describe the different cases of unauthorised copying
- because not all cases are the same.