Although I really do feel where this guy is coming from with his comment "Except for anything by Lewis Carroll or Tolkein, you get five made-up words per story," I protest the implication that A Clockwork Orange is lame - although perhaps that book gets a pass since the vocabulary is often bastardized Russian.
What story with made-up vocabulary would you make an exception for?
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I thought about A Clockwork Orange too.
And then later I thought about Mosch. (No exception there, I'm afraid.)
You really have to give some leeway to any science-fiction or fantasy books. The distinction should be 'made-up name for a concept or thing with a perfectly good English-language name.' A rose by any other name and such. Even the races of ant-people have 'children'. And if your new word is just bad grammar ('like a sword but awesomer') you just need the one to reach 'fail'.
Does "Smurf" count as multiple words? That smurfing smurfy smurf smurfily smurfed me, the smurfer! There's six, toss them in the 'lame' category.
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