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Language should be adequate to the context of a conversation. If you were writing a legal document, or some policy for a kindergarten it might make sense to mak
by truculent 3y ago
Language should be adequate to the context of a conversation. If you were writing a legal document, or some policy for a kindergarten it might make sense to make that distinction, but this is a public forum with many non-native speakers. Child-raiser is a concept pretty much all of us are familiar with and if you say child-raisers we'll understand you mean people using the service because they care for young kids.
- froh 3y agochild-riser is a lovely neologism, more self-explanatory than caretaker, but still caretaker is well established. and to clarify: I chuckled with sympathy reading your response :-)
- flkenosad 3y agoIt's not that it's bad neologism. It's that neologism is bad in general. :-)
- PawgerZ 3y agoNew words are bad in general? How so?
- fifirndisiwbbd 3y agoChange is hard and expensive. The juice needs to be worth the squeeze. Far too often those introducing new words (or even worse redefining existing ones) are playing power games with their in groups best interests in mind, not the rest of us.
- skywhopper 3y agoEvery word you just wrote was a neologism at some point.
- ghusbands 3y agoCaretaker is not well-established where I am. A caretaker takes care of grounds of schools and other similar large buildings.
- froh 3y agoI see. and that's indeed one of the two main meanings. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caretaker https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/caretaker hmmm is there some extended n-gram search these days where you can search for a specific word *with a specific meaning*?