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Who else would?
No-one would have a clue what you were talking about. Until you popularised it, and then cake would not require icing.

Bachelor is an existing widely-used word for [man] + [is married]. The reason you don't talk about a married bachelor is because it's not useful communication.

Words are for communication, there's no logos behind them. They're only meaningful because they're useful; their meaning is their use.
(, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 22:19, archived)
On the flip side
some nouns have so many predicates that if you try to analyse them they all but disappear. "Game" is one. Yet people use them every day and know exactly what a game is.
(, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 22:24, archived)