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Also, it's worth pointing out that a lot of these neologisms that have irked us so much actually detatch from the action they're describing quite a lot. They turn abstract.
"Dialogue" doesn't neccesarily mean talking to your boss. It might be dialogue in a play or film or novel, it might be dialogue as in "there needs to be dialogue between the two countries". It's too big and floaty a word and becomes a little bit untrue for that.
Likewise, "Diarise" doesn't neccesarily mean "I will write it down in my diary". Where is this action made clear in the phrase "diarise"?
So you see, things are becoming less clear and there's less communication going on. Likwise a lot of this stuff is management jargon that sort of sets up barriers between the proffessional and the non-proffessional. Equally, why do we constantly need to speed everything up all the bloody time, is being efficient so bloody important that we can't just say "I'll put it in my diary"?
In almost all other cases, though, coining new words is natural and good and without it we'd be dead ("Look out, here comes, er, a thing, with, er, things...sort of toothy things...it's quite, er, not small...AAAARRFGGGHHH OH SHITTING CHRIST MY FAAACE ARRRGH!!11!!11!!!!"). |
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My only method is to put some Underworld on, which becomes ambient atmos beats rather than a distraction.