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 Dr. Seuss made a whole career out of inventing words. It’s fine. 
 So did Shakespeare

I don't have a problem with inventing words.

It's the redefining of existing words that make English a less useful protocol. 
 the same totalitarian manipulative psychopathic redefinition process can be done with any language

i would argue that the shitty OOP languages do this exactly and make for a huge waste of time and energy in compilation, by complicating the semantics of everything 
 one of the things i loved about bulgarian language is that a lot of words that you can derive from stems and modifiers actually are valid, or at least understood... i think this is the same in most languages... there is the usual words, and then there is variations that frankenstein understood stems together with conjunctions and valid modifier chains and voila, still valid, so go fuck yourself websters and oxford 
 This is one of the things I love about the #lojban language. There are tons of ways that you can put together words in different combinations to express different things.