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I don’t know why you are being down-voted but here’s my modest +1 of moral support for having made a factual statement and paid the bitter price for it...

• ams6110 9y ago
  Because complaints about rigorous/academic meanings of words don't really add substance to the discussion.
  • qubex 9y ago
    I quite like precise use of vocabulary, it makes it so much easier to ensure everybody intends the same concepts if what one expects to be conveyed is the dictionary definitions. Apparently the OP felt so too. I think he’s justified in wishing to draw attention to that.
    • lvoudour 9y ago
      It's a well known phrase used appropriately in the article. The OP suggested that the author got "confused" and misused the word, which is clearly not the case. Besides "tribute" is also used non-literally today, the original meaning is very different
• perl4ever 9y ago
  The world "ode" is rarely used literally - it's usually used in a metaphorical sense.
  • qubex 9y ago
    As the OP points out, there’s the word ’tribute’ to denote what was apparently the author’s original intention.
    • perl4ever 9y ago
      I disagree with the implicit suggestion that using a word like 'ode' metaphorically is undesirable. It's certainly popular and not novel, in any case.