Nice bit of petulance, right there. Will you take your ball and go home, now?
Words have meanings, and the word “homophobic” is one of the most misused and overused words in today’s common parlance, so my “made-up word” is an effort to more accurately describe the true attitude and motivation in the use of the playground taunts and accusations.
“Made-up words” are, in fact, commonplace... fifteen years hence would you have known what was meant if someone googled you? Fascism entered the English language in the early 1920s, totalitarianism in the mid-1920s. Semantics clarify, and crystallise thought; proper use of the appropriate, and most accurate word or phrase remove ambiguity.
“In my book” it is certainly not an act of cowardice to defend someone, not present, from the attacks of someone who purports to be the intellectual superior of all on the board.
I have addressed the “invented” word(s) and view your quia dicere, ita est argument as fallacious and moot.
