Academics do not dictate what is and is not a word, usage does and it is generally difficult to find historical usage for recent words. Edit: mistook what you

Academics do not dictate what is and is not a word, usage does and it is generally difficult to find historical usage for recent words. Edit: mistook what you meant by "academically desperate" most likely but I am not 100% sure about what you did mean by it. New usages have vague definitions since there is not enough usage yet and it may very well be a new way to say "talking" but the definition you gave makes it sound more like a new way to say "discussing." You may want to read up on how language evolves and grows. Edit a tad more: Did a bit of digging and "languaging" has its first recorded use (according to google books) back in the early 1800s and has had a fairly regular niche usage up until the 1960s where use starts to increase. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=languaging&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=languaging&yea... https://www.google.com/search?q=%22languaging%22&lr=lang_en&tbs=lr:lang_1en,cdr:1,cd_min:1800,cd_max:1899&tbm=bks&sxsrf=APwXEddpFKGVYaZJ8-7GoqISkDByMLHqOQ:1682790351381&source=lnt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib7v_I0s_-AhVwjIkEHS9XAEQ4ChCnBXoECAEQGw&biw=1346&bih=771&dpr=1.4 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22languaging%22&lr=lang_en&...