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::::: True, but if the Wikipedia article on the Jazz scale is any indication, there does seem to be a bit of an emerging tradition to use "myx-" and "myxian" as the shortened combining forms of "Mixolydian", as in "Lydomyxian" and "Myxaeolian". So in effect, that's ultimately the fault of whoever created the words "Lydomyxian" and "Myxaeolian" in the first place, and I can tell you that that was someone else's idea. --[[User:Aura|Aura]] ([[User talk:Aura|talk]]) 22:42, 14 February 2021 (UTC) | ::::: True, but if the Wikipedia article on the Jazz scale is any indication, there does seem to be a bit of an emerging tradition to use "myx-" and "myxian" as the shortened combining forms of "Mixolydian", as in "Lydomyxian" and "Myxaeolian". So in effect, that's ultimately the fault of whoever created the words "Lydomyxian" and "Myxaeolian" in the first place, and I can tell you that that was someone else's idea. --[[User:Aura|Aura]] ([[User talk:Aura|talk]]) 22:42, 14 February 2021 (UTC) | ||
:::::: Fair enough — this is a known kind of flexibility in English. My note was rather on the general approach to creating neologisms. — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]], ''Monday 2021 February 15, 15:47 UTC'' | |||
== Comma name inconsistency == | == Comma name inconsistency == | ||