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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:22:39AM +0200, Greg Byshenk wrote:

> Colorful neologisms need not be a large problem.  Should a reader
> encouter such a thing as "automagical" with which s/he is not
> familiar, it should not be terribly difficult to recognize it as
> a neologism and discover or deduce the appropriate meaning.

Assuming that is, that you're a native English speaker. For people
who have English as a second language or perhaps can just about
get by in it, spotting neologisms is not as obvious as it might
appear.

If you spend any time with a professional copy editor you'll find
they have very strong views about this sort of thing.

-- 
Paul Richards