Originally Posted By: Faldage
 Originally Posted By: Hydra
 Originally Posted By: Faldage
And what's to hate?


This, IMO, is the problem with hardcore descriptivism. If anything goes, anything goes.

So, what is to hate? About presenteeism, that is.

We have us a phenomenon. What's wrong with the word presenteeism being used to describe it?


I've got nothing against a new word being made up for the phenomenon but I think presenteeism is clunky and awakward to say. Maybe because there are different ways to place stress on the syllables in present. I tried it out on someone who had not nheard it before and once I got the stress right he understood what it meant without any explanation so that was good but I still think the description someone used earlier of "clunky" is on the mark.