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Re:Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M by schoen on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:37PM (#17681303)
> Australian planologists should talk to Dutch planologists, and it'll be fine

By the way, in English planologie is called "city planning" or "urban planning" and a planoloog is an "urban planner" or "city planner". We don't really have the terms planology and planologist (although they sound pretty awesome!).

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Re:Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M by mettamage on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:49PM (#17681905)
Haha, you caught me! I was too lazy to do a dictionary check on the internet and found it fun to assume the word existed.
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Re:Angst Swells as Australian Population Nears 25M by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday August 03, 2018 @05:06PM (#17683618)
To be fair though, in English the suffix '-ology' means a subject of study; a branch of knowledge, and English is fine with portmanteaus.

Words mean what people use them to mean. Dictionaries are only, and can only be, historical records.

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