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[sourcepluck]

Provide a link to Stallman using that term then please? Otherwise, I'm calling nonsense. I'd be 95+% sure you're making that up, or confused in this case.

[cedilla → sourcepluck]

He's not using "computard" but he loves to undermine his credibility by talking about the "Amazon Swindle" and such.

[sourcepluck → cedilla]

Ok, so, the thing I was replying to was just someone claiming false things as I imagined. Glad we cleared it up.

[cedilla → sourcepluck]

No, you just misunderstood what OP meant by "this". They meant using portmanteau neologisms, and you thought they meant that specific portmanteau.

No need to be nasty about it.

[sourcepluck → cedilla]

I didn't mean to be nasty - I was, apparently, misunderstanding OP's original message. In my defense, the causal link between these three things:

1. Person A in their blog appears to be using a weird portmanteau, "computard" 2. "Some famous people like Stallman do this" (referring to portmanteaus, and making up words, in general, and not the specific portmanteau person A used) 3. "People" maybe don't perceive that positively (making up portmanteaus..?)

is more than a bit hard to follow.

Anyway, I thought an obviously false claim was being made, but if it's just a few loose amalgamations and people brandishing their opinions about, well that's fine, it is the internet, after all.

[TazeTSchnitzel → cedilla]

Yes, I meant his practice of coming up with silly nicknames for things he dislikes, not that he used this one specifically.