Originally Posted By: Hydra
I thought you were ranting against those who expect to discover that for every thing there's a single word and who believe that somehow the word is always superior to the description; when in fact (as you now make clear) you are ranting against a tendency not to accept a nominal phrase instead of a single word—something quite different, and something I have not actually noticed. Perhaps I am not very observant.


and I'm not seeing a difference between those two. isn't the tendency not to accept the phrase what drives the need for a single word?

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