... to invent words. Of course, coining words to meet real needs continued—and it continues, especially in specialized realms like medicine, tech-nology, fashion, cooking, cartooning, online ... half-hidden level of language. The conceptual matter of family words, like that of other kinds of words, has anti-matter, or word fugitives: meanings for which we’d all like to have words, and for ... with us since the beginning. The impulse to coin words today may well be a vestige of the impulse that gave humankind lan-guage in the first place. Jargon, slang, and words coined in all seriousness...