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Right, except in terms of neologizing I was referring to contexts where many individual texts are trying to establish a new term. So if you are trying to parse Science Fiction texts, yes there are "terms of art" that don't appear outside of that field (eg. "blaster"), but often there are terms that don't appear anywhere else, not even in other works by the same author.

Other pathological cases are business books trying to coin a term or twist existing words into new meanings (eg. "cloud"), verbing nouns (incentivize), nouning verbs (likes, learnings), and so on.




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