Re: Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?

["Surag R" <suragtechwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>]

>Have you ever felt the need to create a new word?

In one of my projects, there was a term "statused" in the UI. I told the
project manager that there is no term like statused. He said, the software
product has a history of around 15 years and no user had complained about it
till now and let us continue using it.

I was wondering whether that logic was acceptable? There are a lot of wrong
grammatical usages and misspellings around us through advertisements and
other channels. Can this type of software UI errors too be accepted like
that? Or shall we classify it as the invention of a new word according to
convenience?

Surag
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