User blog comment:Wordworthyman/Anglish: Its Strengths and Its Weaknesses/@comment-26538658-20170831121043/@comment-32628745-20170901044551

Exactly! It is Anglish's strongest ability by far. If we make the word first and begin using it before such a technology exists, it would make sense to use the word already in use. This has happened before. Usually science fiction authors would make up a name for a technology they describe in their books. A good example is the atomic bomb coined by British science fiction author H.G Wells in his 1914 novel The World Set Free. For other words that don't exist, usually cultural words, or a thing that can only be explained in an inefficiently, usually requiring a length compound noun or an entire sentence to explain (Sidenote, making a word that means "a thing cannot be easily explained" would be a good example of a coined Anglish word). Other times, a comon word like "understand" has many different senses and meanings. Often, it would be good take one of these senses to make a more specific meaning.

I'm all for having new words in the dictionary. The more words English has, the richer our language becomes. It is should also be important to use words that are more understand at first sight, although, this is optional, so don't feel hindered by this.