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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 23 Sep 2016

    What Concept Most Needs a Word in the English Language?http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/what-concept-most-needs-a-word-in-the-english-language/497573/# …

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      1. Kyle‏ @Kyle_The_Dude 25 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @TheAtlantic Why not a word that distinguishes clinical depression from the emotion of depression.

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      1. dhamcres‏ @dhamcres 24 Sep 2016
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        @TheAtlantic Adopting an opponent's stereotype of you, for the brief pleasure of shocking them. Or the exasperated urge to do so.

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      1. Joshua Loftus‏ @joftius 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        self-privilege blindness 😜

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      1. Níčhölás Rees‏ @NicholasRees1 23 Sep 2016
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        need a word for the slightly delusional idea that things are not as bad as we think & better than any time in the past. Pinkerism

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      2. Parles Krughammer‏ @ParlKrughammer 23 Sep 2016
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        I think we need a word that means "a feeling of disappointment over something you nonetheless fully expected to happen."

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      4. Parles Krughammer‏ @ParlKrughammer 25 Sep 2016
        Replying to @PorqueFX @sapinker

        I was thinking, 'expointed'.

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      2. Robert Harris‏ @trebor 23 Sep 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        single syllable, gender neutral alternative to "guy", as in: "there is a guy who does that." #personistoolong

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      1. joan_mediator‏ @joan_mediator 24 Oct 2016
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        @SallyAlbright @TheAtlantic my vote is for an underused word--imbellicose

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      1. Nick Bez Copywriter‏ @nickrunner 23 Sep 2016
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        The Meaning of Liff, published 1984, tackled this issue head-on. :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff …

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      1.  🦋PsyXe 🦋‏ @PsyX3 23 Sep 2016
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        I think we need a new word for what racism used to mean before it meant "everything"

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      2. Don Raymond‏ @dementeddon 23 Sep 2016
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        Please oh please give us a 3rd person gender neutral pronoun!

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      1. Megga‏ @meggalynx 2 Oct 2016
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        @TheAtlantic language is molten and will always create new words as need arise..what words have you created?

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      1. Jeff Cotner‏ @CotnerJeff 28 Sep 2016
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        "Hanlan's Razor": not a word, but the right concept. Never attributed to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

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