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tingletech | 2 months ago

I think they literally coined and defined the term over 25 years ago.

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CamperBob2|2 months ago

That's not how it works. They're entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own dictionary.

PaulDavisThe1st|2 months ago

When you combine two words into a fundamentally novel phrase, you are not expressing an opinion, you are contributing to the global (or in this case, anglophone) dictionary.

hollerith|2 months ago

So if you were to write that you are not in the habit of stealing from children, you might have your own idiosyncratic definition of "steal" or "child"?