Calculators don't work by moving pebbles around, but they're called calculators anyway (from Latin calculus, literally "pebble"). On the same note, is the point

Calculators don't work by moving pebbles around, but they're called calculators anyway (from Latin calculus, literally "pebble"). On the same note, is the point of movies the fact that they're moving images? Yet the name derives from this. TL;DR: Do you want a logical language? Try Lojban, not English ;)