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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by milliams on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:41AM (#27220986)
> I found out that "prepone" was not an actual word in English, based on the dogma that all legitimate words in a language must be found in a dictionary.

I disagree. In this case, it was based on the fact that no one you were talking to knew the meaning of the word you'd made up. This is descriptivism at work.

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by andrewzah on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:40AM (#27222589)
Prepone is not a word in American Standard English. Or casual American English. Nobody uses it, although we should. It's totally logical from "postpone", but languages are not rational or logical.

If something is to become a word, people need to actually use it in the first place. Indian English is different than American English is different than Black American English is different than UK English.

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by MispelledToyota on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:08AM (#27222128)
doesn't really hold up. If there was one person left alive on Earth they would still speak a language, and there would be observable rules about it all the same.
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