"I think it's pure fraud ...It's not bad science.It's nonsense," Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, told reporters.

加州大学伯克利分校的语言学教授杰弗里•纳恩博格在接受记者采访时说：“这完全是无稽之谈，并不是伪科学，而是毫无意义。”

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In fact, Nunberg says words from the 1940s -- like the A-word -- are more likely to survive than words invented in the '90s.

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More words are being invented now than ever before -- partly because of easy and fast communication on the interwebs. (Sorry, gemurray) "But the more words that are produced increases the competition, " says Nunberg.

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The panel was moderated by former Congressman Fred Grandy and featured Sam Nunberg of the Middle East Forum, Brooke Goldstein of the Lawfare Project and Andrew McCarthy, former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney and Senior Fellow at the National Review Institute.

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