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Old 09-16-2010, 01:49 PM   #8
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The opposite is Gene Wolfe, who uses many obscure words, but if you look them up, you discover they are real words, and used correctly in context.
Yes, you think he is using the standard SF/Fantasy way of making up words as a part of the world-building but, as you say, they are the correct (if sometimes archaic) term for what he is describing.
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