The only novel I’ve read (didn’t finish) by Neal was Anathem and besides being a 1000 page drag it used the literary fiction tool I hate the most taking (Englis

The only novel I’ve read (didn’t finish) by Neal was Anathem and besides being a 1000 page drag it used the literary fiction tool I hate the most taking (English) words and changing a letter or two or creating onomatopoeic twins with different spelling e.g. avout (devout) and sæcular (secular) it just super lazy and disrespectful to the reader if you want to have a society of monks that took a vow of some sort just call them that. I care about the plot and the setting not the names of things, I really fucking hate authors who try to be original by bastardizing words for no reason. If this was some post apocalyptic society and how the spelling and pronunciation and even the meaning of the words evolved over time is part of the story then sure go a head but when it’s completely detached from the setting it’s just just is lazy writing.