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Wordsmith
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Lover of words and puns and poetries.
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All words have to be coined by a wordsmith at some point in the mists of history. The wordsmith had an idea to get across and needed a sound to express it. In principle, any sound would have done - basic principle of linguistics is that the relation of a sound to a meaning is arbitrary - so the first coiner of a term from for a political affiliation, for instance, could have used glorg or schmendrick or mcgillicuddy. But people are poor at conjuring sounds out of the blue, and they probably want
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― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
