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Re:Hampton Creek’s Entire Board Leaves Except for CEO by kjksf on Monday July 17, 2017 @05:52PM (#14792570)
Before mobile phones were invented, no definition of the phone did include:

- can be carried in your pocket - are wireless - have high-resolution screens - are supercomputers, by standards of 1984 - can send video just as easily as voice

Some words describe function, not a list of ingredients.

Some words change meaning over time.

Sometimes the thing described changes drastically, like bananas http://www.businessinsider.com/banana-fruit-changes-history-...

We didn't create a new word to describe iPhone.

Just Mayo has more in common, functionally speaking, with egg-based mayonnaise than iPhone has with rotary phone or Tesla with Ford's Model T.

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Re:Hampton Creek’s Entire Board Leaves Except for CEO by Turing_Machine on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @06:23AM (#14795477)
An iPhone can make a phone call. Therefore it is a phone. Things that do the same things as iPhones without the phone functionality are called iPods.

"Just Mayo has more in common, functionally speaking, with egg-based mayonnaise"

Mustard, catsup, ranch dressing, and many other condiments also have a lot in common with mayonnaise functionally. That doesn't make them mayonnaise.

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