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Why not? New words are invented all the time, and they can end up being part of the regular vocabulary. "noob" is an example coming from the gaming world. "Yeet" might become one, who knows?

All I'm saying is, if there's a need for a word to express something, it will evolve and it will become part of the language. Here's a list of new words added to the Oxford dictionary, for example: https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-january-2018/. "commodify" is one that I've seen used a lot already. "hangry" is a slang ish words that has been promoted to a dictionary word, too.



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