Quote Originally Posted by tyckspoon View Post
That sounds like a lot of field-specific jargon for 'It's just there, we don't really know why' with a bit of 'people liked how it looked/sounded on one word so they started using it on other words with similar constructions.'
I'm quite confident in TaiLiu's ability to both parse it and to have foreseen I'll do this exact thing when requesting my opinion. Aside from that, "it does not carry meaning" is kind of important and the term excrescent useful for locating further reading into the subject if they want to delve in any.