How is a word created? How does it become a generally accepted term by a population?

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How is a word created? How does it become a generally accepted term by a population?

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I feel like this phenomenon is a bit too complicated to eli5 but here’s the best I’ve got.

We know there are different shades of red. For a long time though, we only had one way to describe the different shades so they were all red. The some day, some one said something like “burgundy” or “crimson”.

We find a new way to describe something so that ideas become more robust and easier to picture for others.