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Utterly convincing, their letters flit between subjects as various as love, communism, neology and friendship.
Alain Rey, author of the Historic Dictionary of the French Language and member of the Académie's general commission of terminology and neology, a 17-member group of professors, linguists, and scientists – among others – said words went back and forth between countries and countries.
In a letter to John Adams, in 1820, Thomas Jefferson, a man of business and science as well as politics, wrote, "I am a friend to neology.
The word burned through the thin, dry-timbered wall of political neology in 1984, as Senator John Glenn's campaign manager in South Carolina, John Lawson, told the A.P. that Glenn's campaign "considered six Deep South states to be the crucial states for Glenn — the fire wall, if you will, between Mondale and the nomination".
This sentiment, known as Neology, dominated Lutheranism in the second half of the 18th century.
Monkey is a little slow on the compréhension here (hat tip: New Statesman) – last week the French government's General Commission for Terminology and Neology issued a proclamation to users of Twitter and other social media urging them to stop using the term "hashtag", in favour of "mot-dièse".
The Académie is aided and abetted by the General Commission on Terminology and Neology, the government body responsible for creating new words, and the group we have to thank for the "courriel" movement.
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