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{{quote|''"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less."''|'''[[Alice in Wonderland|Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There]]'''}}
Pretending that a word means whatever you want it to mean. This isn't just trying to help a language evolve. It's outright acting like a word's definition only should be what you want it to be.
Say you're trying to convince people on a message board that a
Damn it! This politician's views don't fit the definition of fascism at all!
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Compare [[Newspeak]], [[Implausible Deniability]], [[Chewbacca Defense]] and [[No True Scotsman]], [[From a Certain Point of View]]. Not to be confused with [[Neologism]] which is making up words to ''add'' to current dictionaries.
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