New words probably shouldn’t use completely made up sounds. It can only add confusion. There may be existing similar words with completely different meaning; or worse, with distantly overlapping semantic fields.
Good existing English words were mentioned: handle, pointer. Both naturally evoke an idea to the correct direction: they point to the idea of a pointer, they provide a handle to grasp the idea of a handle.
“I didn’t intend to force my made-up words on people outside of that context, but alas, here we are” reads to me like an apology, which is proper; but wouldn’t it still be better to just not do it at all instead of apologizing afterwards? Views on this differ for sure. This type of behaviour points to a serious lack of humility.
I have found in my note-keeping for my own use, that attaching made-up sounds to specific ideas that don’t have words yet is actually very useful; whereas overloading words that already have other meanings is something that actively harms clarity.
No, this is a very good comment.
New words probably shouldn’t use completely made up sounds. It can only add confusion. There may be existing similar words with completely different meaning; or worse, with distantly overlapping semantic fields.
Good existing English words were mentioned: handle, pointer. Both naturally evoke an idea to the correct direction: they point to the idea of a pointer, they provide a handle to grasp the idea of a handle.
“I didn’t intend to force my made-up words on people outside of that context, but alas, here we are” reads to me like an apology, which is proper; but wouldn’t it still be better to just not do it at all instead of apologizing afterwards? Views on this differ for sure. This type of behaviour points to a serious lack of humility.
I have found in my note-keeping for my own use, that attaching made-up sounds to specific ideas that don’t have words yet is actually very useful; whereas overloading words that already have other meanings is something that actively harms clarity.
I’d just sort of assumed the similar sound to zazen was intentional and that if I’d known Japanese it might make more sense.