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hawleyal on Jan 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

Hologram/holographic is already a word. It has a very specific meaning. It is not a new conjured word like Walkman or Iphone, which were just one implementation of a portable tape player or smart phone.

mattlutze on Jan 26, 2015 [–]

It also has a rather general meaning for the majority of non-experts.

We re-appropriate words all the time in English, and it's generally a fine thing to do, specialists' consternation notwithstanding.

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