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Inventing new words, including by compounding, is supposed to be clever, or indicate a new concept that should have its own word, sometimes by linking two words that were previously independent mod...
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2019-12-19T22:13:50Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T12:27:23Z (over 4 years ago)
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Inventing new words, including by compounding, is supposed to be clever, or indicate a new concept that _should_ have its own word, sometimes by linking two words that were previously independent modifiers.
Einstein's theory of General Relativity treated time as another dimension of space, thus making space-time, or spacetime.
Compounds like "no thing" to "nothing" can take on their own meaning, "nothing" is understood in many ways where "no thing" would sound strange. That compound has survived 800 years (I know, nobody ("no body") remembers).
"every time" to "everytime" seems to be a failed effort to make some subtle distinction like this, just like the more successful compounds "peacetime", "overtime", "halftime", "showtime", "timezone".
Inventing new compounds is an attempt to be clever or profound, this can be successful if the compound identifies a unique combination of words to represent a unique concept or condition the public finds useful, or funny, or memorable. That happens, the language is always evolving with new tech, new roles, new kinds of relationships, etc.
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2019-07-15T10:34:02Z (almost 5 years ago)
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