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Generally speaking, solution to a terminology problem isn't to create terminology n+1.

• kerkeslager 9y ago
  That depends what the terminology problem is. If the problem is that you're going to be criticized by a bunch of pedantic linguistic prescriptivists who want you to use their terms in the way they want, creating new terms avoids that criticism.
  • abiox 9y ago
    > avoids that criticism is that really important to avoid? and one is just gaining new criticisms in trade, no? and of course, going bespoke and inventing everything yet again has it's perks. maybe you'll get to be the person who "invented" a term, should it catch on. great for the resume. :)
• dronescanfly 9y ago
  The good old: Oh look, there are n different services, but all of them have not completely nailed it and my specific use case is not covered. I'll create a new service that does all of the stuff the old services already did, aswell as this new thing, thus making the old n services obsolete. Everyone will be thankful for the unifying service and hail me for reducing the number of choices from n down to 1. That's how we ended up with n+1 different services.