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And, after all, 'em eir ey' aren't technically correct either. On account of not being words.
I have mellowed in the last year or so. I no longer downvote every comment that uses that kind of language. They no longer have the same close ties with an abhorrent (local) political agenda so I can now consider them more or less acceptable.
EDIT: Most unexpected significant and rapid downvoting of one of my comments ever. I retract it, including the downvote policy change - I have returned to considering the subject as distasteful politics.
Neologisms are still words.
EDIT: As wedrifid implies, words are strings of characters with socially established meanings. Just because he doesn't belong to the social group that uses those words to mean those things doesn't mean they stop being words. It'd be like saying {klama} isn't a word merely because only around a thousand people or so have ever used it to mean "go/come."
Sure, ok. "Not words in this particular established language". Arglebargle witzot phlerg.
You mis-spelled "flerg".
Must have missed my edit where I explicitly mentioned social groups. Also, see Wittgenstein's comments on private language.
No. Nor is that conclusion suggested by my reply.
What was your reply supposed to suggest?