A word is not a word until it is first used by someone. That is how it has been in history, that is how it should be today. However instead we say that a word is only these things of old, that we cannot create new, that we must hinder the natural progression of our language. This first of all leaves us with slang, wasted thought on worthless words, not even making communication better.

Secondly, this traps us in a boring lifestyle, we do not learn new words, we do not think of new words. Somehow we have decided there is some mysterious language board somewhere voting on what stays and what goes. And somewhere along the way people seem to slip a few in, under our efforts to stop them. The whole language we speak is a microcasm of the society we created and allow to flourish.

Why should we expect something new, when we are taught everything is a retread. So we constantly keep this pattern going, we constantly do the same things, and never try to truly revolutionize our world. Every once in a while someone sneaks something in, but we hardly notice, in fact once we are presented with something new, we insist it must be the same as something we experienced before. After all there is nothing new under the sun… or is there?

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