I'm old, and hate the bastardization of language when it's done out of ignorance, and particularly when it's done with some sort of manipulative agenda. But th

I'm old, and hate the bastardization of language when it's done out of ignorance, and particularly when it's done with some sort of manipulative agenda. But this is a perfectly reasonable new term, describing an interesting subset of 'avatar' that has its own unique traits, and that is useful to distinguish from other types of avatar. Getting upset at that is like getting upset that somebody used the term 'recliner' instead of a 'chair'.