It's a bad term in the sense that it's not self-explanatory. Hearing just the term itself is likely to give you the wrong idea about what it means. Learning a

It's a bad term in the sense that it's not self-explanatory. Hearing just the term itself is likely to give you the wrong idea about what it means. Learning a name -> feature mapping isn't a problem in itself, but the fact that you have to do it before you get an approximately correct idea regarding what it's about is an unnecessary inefficiency.