Coining a neologism is an act of linguistic imperialism that helps to link your identity and body of work -- as originator of the neologism -- to a field. It's

Coining a neologism is an act of linguistic imperialism that helps to link your identity and body of work -- as originator of the neologism -- to a field. It's worse in some scientific fields than others. I spent a lot of time studying emergence, oh wait I mean complexity, oh wait I mean dissipative structures, self-organizing systems, class IV cellular automata, dynamical systems, chaordic systems, oh screw it. It's really bad in that field. Things whose parts give rise to second-order behaviors that are not obvious from the structure of the parts themselves. Yeah that.