Timeline for Why is "ailer" not a word?

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Dec 9, 2014 at 14:00	comment	added	Mark Williams		One who ails could be described as a victim of ailing - so, in the same way as a trainee is a victim of training, or a an evictee is a victim of eviction, then ailee would be an equally valid derivation - although still wrong, of course. You can't just make up a neologism like that - unless describing a new phenomenon, as per the U.S. example - without it being recognised as odd.
Dec 9, 2014 at 11:36	comment	added	TimR		@choster: I have tried to address sufferer in a P.S. to my answer.
Dec 9, 2014 at 11:36	history	edited	TimR	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 724 characters in body
Dec 9, 2014 at 10:13	comment	added	Tomas		@choster yes we can, from the language point of view. From the philosophical too, according to teaching of Viktor Frankl, you can proactively decide to suffer or not to suffer :-) But seriously: You inherited, you suffer, but something ails you, something itches you. This answer is correct.
Dec 9, 2014 at 0:17	comment	added	choster		I had a line about that in a draft of my answer, but wasn't sure we could make a rule out of it. Sure, reigners and bewarers sound wrong, but can we really consider inheritors and sufferers to be engaged in an activity?
Dec 8, 2014 at 23:41	history	answered	TimR	CC BY-SA 3.0