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> Language is always a response to the evolving world around us – we expand it when our current vocabulary fails to capture what we’re observing, or have a particular desire for how we’d like the future to unfold. Naming is a political act as much as a poetic one. 

see https://blog.giersig.eu/articles/thinking-in-public/