Doesn’t change that it was a bad idea to borrow a generic term for small sweet fruits to refer to a specific botanical feature. Not just bad, but completely unnecessary and inarguably a bit stupid.
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWhat if I told you that words can have different meanings in different contexts? Just because the same word can be used to refer to different things depending on whether its used in everyday or scientific speech doesn’t mean either usage is “wrong”.
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BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Context specific definitions are the bane of my autistic existence. Figuring out context is a waste of brainpower that could be better used having anxiety over situations that aren’t going to happen.
/Completely serious, but not quite as strongly as worded here.
groknull@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
So I take it no one should mention that in astrophysics anything heavier than helium is a metal
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah well, people aren’t computers and language always had multiple levels of ambiguity. I understand if that is difficult to grasp if you can’t understand it on an intuitive level like most people. On the other hand it’s not that hard to understand on an intellectual level.