Oh well. I guess if you want "neologism" to mean "any word invented in the past 300 years", that's your prerogative, but I take a very different meaning. One in

Oh well. I guess if you want "neologism" to mean "any word invented in the past 300 years", that's your prerogative, but I take a very different meaning. One interesting side-effect of that interpretation is that "neologism" becomes autological, since it was itself coined in that period. It's true that there are sometimes nuances lost in the conversion from large to small, but there is far more nuance lost once your partner doesn't know what the hell you are saying. For you, Brobdingnagian might have some special nuance (I'm picking on that word because it is ridiculous to me), but to your partner it has no nuance or flavor -- they have no associations with that word, nor any grasp of any subtleties of meaning -- in fact they don't grasp the meaning at all. So if you are trying to get something across, it's simply a bad way to do it. I mean, don't get me wrong -- I don't want to deride big-word-users. If you want to do to because you like it -- that's obviously fine. Also, if someone does happen to have a thing with Brobdingnagian, I guess you might have just made their day a lot better. But at some point, you have to acknowledge that obscure vocabulary is more of a hindrance than a boon to communication.