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Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles by hawleyal on Thursday January 22, 2015 @01:57PM (#8930943)
Hologram/holographic is already a word. It has a very specific meaning. It is not a new conjured word like Walkman or Iphone, which were just one implementation of a portable tape player or smart phone.
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Re:Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles by mattlutze on Monday January 26, 2015 @08:29AM (#8946865)
It also has a rather general meaning for the majority of non-experts.

We re-appropriate words all the time in English, and it's generally a fine thing to do, specialists' consternation notwithstanding.

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