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Hi linguists. I'm visiting from Writers.SE. Would this question (or, probably, an improved version of it) be on-topic on your site? The person seems to be looking for info about portmanteau words, which isn't on-topic for either us or English (the places OP has been so far). See the comments.
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Q: Bringing word into existence just by calling and using it

HoomanI am not sure I should ask my question here or on writers.stackexchange Sometime when I read essays I see writers make up some words and uses them, By calling some words that doesn't exist they bringing that word into existence. For example: Ruth Behar in her article Juban America uses term "Ju...

 
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04:04
Update: looks like that question was answered on English and it's been closed on Writers, so never mind. Sorry for the bother.
 
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@MonicaCellio Feel free to "bother" us anytime you want :-)
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Q: Can parsing be classified to some complexity class (e.g. NP-complete)?

Louis RhysIn computer science (especially computational complexity theory), problems can be classified to some complexity theory. For example, we say the travelling salesman problem belongs to NP-complete. Parsing of a human-language text (e.g. English text) is also a computational problem. Can it be anal...

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@OtavioMacedo thanks. Interesting site you've got here. I understand some of it. :-) (I used to do NLP programming, actually, so a little of what our linguists said sunk in, but it's been a while. I need to come visit here more.)
 
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@OtavioMacedo Haha, but music expresses how people desire to be, not how they are!

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