Comment by lern_too_spel
5 days ago
I was thrown off by the use of the word, "wordcel," which the author defines as almost the opposite of what I would expect it to mean. Just like "incel" is a portmanteau, I expect "wordcel" to mean "word celibate." It didn't fit the context. The word is linked to a longer article that has the author's definition buried in it, which just distracted more from this article.
I'm perhaps too online, but this is not the author's coining. There was discourse ages ago about how some people are "shape rotators" -- that is, they could reason about complex stuff in their heads, and their counterparts, the "wordcels", that could express ideas through writing. The latter admittedly does not make sense as a portmanteau, likely because a shape rotator came up with it.