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 twoexamples 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.
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!