Re: OT: Air America makes a year!

I read in sci.electronics.design that Roger Johansson <no-email@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in <425aab16$2$79457$14726298@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) about 'OT: Air America makes a year!', on Mon, 11 Apr 2005:

It is better to avoid special expressions and try to follow general linguistic rules common to (for) many languages which the readers have experience of (from).

I agree, for this and many other newsgroups, unless it's a fun thing. I was one of the first to use 'audiophool', possibly THE first, and I definitely introduced 'docopocoss'.

OTOH, on the translators' newsgroup, I deliberately introduce unusual words and expressions, because in the long term that is helpful.
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