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>Rappers with a lot of made up words might be on the far left

It's interesting that you think that. I'd recommend you look at this: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.ht...

At what point do 'made up' words become 'established'. After they've been published? If so, every made up word in a song should be considered 'established'.

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Somebody was listening to "To the Best of Our Knowledge" this weekend, methinks.

I don't know what that is, but I'll check it out.

They happened to have a bit on Shakespeare's word invention: http://www.ttbook.org/book/shakespeares-inflence-stephen-mar...

Claim is that some 1700 or so of his 30,000 word vocabulary was invented by him. Including terms such as "assasination" and "gnarled".

I didn't mean to imply that being on the far left or being made up meant 'worse' in any way. Quite the opposite in fact - I think that if someone can create a word or phrase that becomes normal in everyday usages, it's a sign of... something. Maybe influence, maybe genius. Like you said, Shakespeare first used words that we consider common.

I have no idea at what point a word becomes 'established' though.

I actually revised the conclusion to address this issue. Check it out on the site.

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