The prescriptivist side of my Janus-like brain totally agrees with zmjezhd on the issue of mixing Latin stems and roots with Greek stems and roots to produce new words. When in the process of producing one, I (tend to) avoid that, in the same way that I cook no Greco-Italian dishes.

The descriptivist side of the selfsame brain says that almost any word used by Anthony Burgess is worthy of consideration because, whatever else one may think of his writing, he had a masterful command of English and may be emulated (in his writing, if nothing else) to one's benefit.