No one objects in principle to the coining of new words for new things. Apart from this unexceptionable and linguistically trivial kind of change, innovations in language today are almost always the result of four forces that I will call Simple Ignorance, Social Climbing, Semantic Inflation, and Group Solidarity.
-- Mark Halpern, "The End of Linguistics," Am. Scholar, Winter 2001, at 13, 14.
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