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-The sort of invention, you know, that persists. The active neologism, it's more characteristic, actually, of my earlier work. And, it was something I was doing-- something I was doing very deliberately to induce cognitive dissonance in the reader. I wanted-- part of my early technique, early conscious technique, involved setting up a situation in which the reader of work of fiction was experiencing the fictional world in the way that one initially experiences a foreign culture. -And, I thought that if I could do that, it proved something. Particularly because I was writing science fiction. In a way, I was-- I think I was making a point about the sort of science fiction one frequently picks up today, which would be set two centuries ahead, it feels exactly like the present. In a way that, somehow, the world of Star Trek is exactly like the present. Or maybe the past, at this point. But, it's like it's this very American world. The underpinnings and subtext are very much those of the world as we would like to think we once knew it. But, I was shooting for the opposite. -The neologisms were very, very carefully positioned. And, the explanation of what they meant was never positioned very far from the initial use of the word. But you were supposed to be completely baffled the first time, unless you could get it by context. But, within a page or two, I would try to gloss it in a way that it wasn't obvious. Which, I think provides the-- can provide the satisfaction for the reader of getting it. Because, we all like to get it.