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There’s not much reason to change well-understood terminology just because it doesn’t match a pedant’s definition closely enough.
by least 6y ago
There’s not much reason to change well-understood terminology just because it doesn’t match a pedant’s definition closely enough.
- throwaway823882 6y agoMy whole point is this is not well understood. It's not pedantry, it's basic miscommunication. One small group of people think they know what it means. Meanwhile they are conflating two entirely different groups of people (people at work, and teens), and disregarding the cultural conventions of the rest of the planet. It makes them look stupid.