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Old March 28th, 2009 #92
Lasher
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Originally Posted by Horseman View Post
It's aesthetics that says whether a new word is good. It's like art - it's either good or not, and no analysis is necessary on it, and you don't need to be appointed as an arbiter to be able to coin one. Excuse me for jumping into your discussion.
Just how does esthetics relate to the written word? How can one judge one spelling of a word to be more beautiful than another? Esthetics, by definition, refers to beauty. It is Lasher's opinion that words should be in a dictionary before they are acknowledged as viable, genuine parts of the English language, and not just corrupted, polyglot, inventions of someone who is unable to formulate his words in a coherent manner.

You're excused.