Hi! I don't mean to bother, I know you're not active in the coining scene anymore, but I wanted to ask you something.
A while ago, I coined a neoumbrella called doxymora. And then, a while after I did, I found out othellic existed. I've been thinking on it for a while, and after some thought (and asking a few other people), I believe doxymora is essentially a recoin of othellic.
So, out of respect for you & the original term, I wanted to ask if you thought so, too—and if so, would you like me to do anything about it, such as delete it?
If you have no opinion on it, that's fine, too. I don't want to like, force you to do anything. I just didn't want to be disrespectful, and I try not to recoin other folks' terms.
taps my chin thoughtfully. yeah it does seem like an unintentional recoin for the most part, though i don't blame you for that, there's sooooooooo many terms being coined all the time and there's gonna be overlap as a result. i definitely don't think you need to delete your work. people come up with similar ideas, people even create the same things sometimes! like, dexter coined holidentity which has overlap with vesil, i don't mind that, me and someone else coined synonymous terms for the same idea with vesbian and sapphe, and neither of us mind that... so maybe like with those, they could just be considered near-synonyms or sibling terms? it does kind of fit the nature of the umbrella to have more than one word / flag / etc. after all!
in general, if someone finds out at one point that they coined something that's almost exactly the same or Is exactly the same as something i made once, the only thing i'd ask for is acknowledgement of the thing i made alongside it. you don't have to delete it and you definitely DEFINITELY don't have to feel bad about it. with the sheer number of terms being coined over multiple years, deleted blogs, archives, etc. etc. it's going to happen and i don't think that's through any fault of the people who do it. it's just the natural consequence of coining and giving language to ideas, but i don't think there's anything unnatural or wrong with there being alternative terms, flags, etc. to the same general concepts. someone might call a color deep blue and the person next to them will call it cornflower blue and they're both right, just with different names, y'know?
