> if you're arguing words have specific meanings...they no longer do. Some terms have a more precise definition than others. I think "relational model" has a v

> if you're arguing words have specific meanings...they no longer do. Some terms have a more precise definition than others. I think "relational model" has a very specific meaning, apart from products that claim to implement it or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model#:~:text=The%20relational%20model%20(RM)%20for,of%20tuples%2C%20grouped%20into%20relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_model#:~:text=The%2.... > if you're arguing words have specific meanings...they no longer do. More on that: Recently Zoom the company was fined 85 million because it used the term "End-to-End encryption" inappropriately in its marketing materials. They could have tried to defend themselves by saying "The word end-to-end-encryption" no longer has a specific meaning, therefore we can use it to mean anything we want". But obviously that would not have worked I don't think. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-for-lying-about-encryption-and-sending-data-to-facebook-and-google/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/zoom-to-pay-85m-...