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by Retra 3948 days ago
It's important to be able to construct specific meanings. You don't need terms to do that, and you run a major communication risk by relying on terms that you aren't willing to define. And if you define them first, then you can use them however you like.
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And that is why, a century ago, German was used frequently in science: A language where every word is a literal description of its meaning.