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

["Paul Pehrson" <paulpehrson -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 4/25/06, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net> wrote:
> Trivial, intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.
>
> Murphy, over in the Statusing Department, has a box of
> statused tags. There are red ones and blue ones. Every
> piece gets a tag, and when it has one, it is recorded
> as "statused" in the peripheral finishing parts operations
> records statused nounclump log.
>
> Got that?
>


That is much clearer. Thanks.

I was seeing a compound word (stat + used) and I couldn't make heads
nor tails of it, despite the context of the thread (which I realize
now should have made it more obvious)

But I was right in that if I saw it in context, I could figure out
what you were trying to say. It wouldn't be easy to localize, however.
I recognize the stated constraints here, but if I were the writer in
this situation, I'd begin the process of pushing for a different word
in later releases.


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