A Dissertation by GRACE HUI-CHIN LIN Submitted to the Office of ...

is a carbon lacking an electron. An electron is a negatron, so it is called a
positive ion of a carbon.”
Jiun Sheng said that describing a word should be quite easy. Jiun Sheng described:
Whatever I would like to describe, I usually was able to find its relative things
to exemplify. It was like looking for a location in a coordinated graph; you
always could describe it with its location on the x axis and its location on the
y axis.
In Jiun Sheng’s second interview, he talked about his perceptions toward “word
coinage.” Moreover, he provided examples created through “paraphrase”:
My perception of “word coinage” was that the language created through it
was too childish and funny, but really comprehensible. Some words might
sound like baby talk, and the listeners would think the speaker’s purpose of
saying it was for making a joke. It is possible the listeners think this way
when they do not know anything about communication strategies.
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When the listener comprehended the speaker’s meaning in this humorous way,
he cleverly would smile at the speaker for implying his understandability, but
and not laughing at me. I perceived that “word coinage” sometimes was an
excellent way to compensate for limited vocabularies. If someone told me
that I was amusing when I used this strategy, I would not think it was