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by ithkuil 612 days ago
To be fair, all words are made up.

Words are useful to the extent they effectively communicate with the intended audience.

This can be accomplished by a mix of familiarity (has this word been already used enough in the target audience with the intended meaning) and the ability to evoke new meanings by intuitive derivation rules (word composition, affixes, ...)

In the case of this title, fwiw, it was perfectly clear to me what this was about because I'm already familiar with related topics and they were using the same terminology