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It'd be useful if English had a more versatile, productive, intuitive system of making non-verb compound words which involve verbs.

Like, if we could just make a single, concise noun containing the meaning of, say, "autistic person who was raised so as to be proficient at masking whether they liked it or not, and keeps doing it because Why Make The Ableist Violence You Experienced As A Kid All For Naught?" β€” like, if English could produce a non-contrived word like "coerced-into-learning-how-to-mask-but-for-material-reasons-keeps-doing-it-masker" β€” that'd… … …well, mitigate one specific form of counterproductive Yelling About Semantics.

But people do what they can with the language they've got, leading to imperfect solutions.


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