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You can choose to use the wrong words all you want. Doing so intentionally is an interesting choice.
ben_w | parent | next
Communication is not a one-player game.

For example, if I was being pedantic:

> nobody seems to care about using the right words in only this context.

"nobody" would include you.

And then I might complain about we use the word "weight" for something massless, or how "bugs me" is *ento*mologically incorrect: https://xkcd.com/1012/

This is of course not a good use of time. I wonder if illustrating the point about how language is dynamic and meanings are descriptive not proscriptive, was a good use?

s0ss | root | parent
yeah, I'm not sure what your goal is pedantically picking apart my argument when the subject at hand is clearly not "open source". love xkcd though. :P
ben_w | root | parent
The point is to give you empathy for those you disagree with here.
tripleee | parent
We're not talking about standard code here. It's totally reasonable to change the meaning depending on context.
s0ss | root | parent
I vehemently disagree. There's no source and it's not open, the licenses are often abysmal too.