satt comments on The Relevance of Advanced Vocabulary to Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: satt 30 November 2013 05:04:17PM *  4 points [-]

we often create new words when existing concepts already exist

Every time I read this, it comes without specific examples.

It doesn't come up much (Google only gave me two examples on LW), but "funge against" winds me up. I don't see what the phrase does that "displace", "crowd out", and "substitute for" don't do already. It's a needless, opaque neologism.

Edit, 5 days later: oh no!