User blog comment:Sbiis Saibian/What is a googolism?/@comment-4224897-20141007121441/@comment-5982810-20141007223358

I think the main reason this definition would be considered questionable is because it opens up a pandora's box of possibilities. However, attempting to hemm in what a "googolism" is, leads to a more complicated and far less intuitive definition. What I like about this definition is that it is very simple and seems to capture the essence of what a googolism is for: to provide a word for a number. I don't really see that there is much functional difference between the name "one" and the name "googolplex", other than one is small and the other large. It's just a lot more simple to say a googolism is just a number name, rather than tack on a bunch of extra (and arguably arbitrary) conditions.