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Oh, and this means your glossary had better be near enough comprehensive.
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I would assume that the author would be clever enough to include all neologisms in the glossary.
As far as losing the glorious, but apparently fragile, immersion in the work... so people have been wrong to use footnotes all these years? To use words beyond the assumed reader's assumed vocabulary list?
This has the smack of "teachism", the sort of thing people who sell advice to writers tend to cook up, as opposed to the writers and readers themselves. Who are pretty much aware that reading a book is not some hypnotic spell, and people go in and out of the reading (sometimes just to do frivolous stuff like eat or sleep or go to the bathroom..all projects that can be as distracting as flipping to the back of the book).
(Even for people who have problems using bookmarks)
Have you EVER heard anybody say they lost interest in A Clockwork Orange because of the glossary? This is just plain not a legitimate argument, sorry.