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by dragonwriter 1033 days ago
> Having a wordvfor it tells you “This is an established thing people do”.

Words are coined for fictional, hypothetical, and/or idealized things that people don’t actually do all the time.

Words and phrases like “reincarnation”, “sorcery”, and “free markets” exist, that doesn’t mean that they correspond to phenomena that actually occur in the real world.