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> It's literally the opposite of descriptive. Obviously it's not a big deal, but it's an easy thing to fix.

Did you know all words are just sounds with an arbitrary connection to what they describe (except the unusual case of onomatopoeia, of course)?

It's exactly as descriptive as most other words, and the benefit over a neologism is the arbitrary connection has already been established in speakers' minds.



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