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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It's like what I say to bother botanists:

If half of the fruits with "berry" in their name don't fit your definition of berry, you need a new definition

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What 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".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 2 points 2 months ago

So I take it no one should mention that in astrophysics anything heavier than helium is a metal

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