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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by crististm on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:37PM (#25606780)
The relevancy to the debate is established by the meaning of the word. Which is a technical issue. Leaving the definition of a precise term to the whims of layman results in that we can't any longer say if we are talking about the same things.

Look no further then to this very thread.

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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by zepto on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:47PM (#25606899)
There is a technical definition and there are lay understandings.

This has always been true. Wouldn’t you say?

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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by crististm on Friday January 01, 2021 @04:33PM (#25607398)
True.

The end result is that the merge of the two ends up in the dictionary. Perhaps it's time to update the definitions but I doubt that 'amphetamine' will be defined as slang for 'meth' when in fact 'meth' is slang or short for 'methamphetamine'.

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Re:Apple has threatened to remove Amphetamine from the App S... by zepto on Friday January 01, 2021 @04:43PM (#25607490)
Yeah - I’m not expecting it to end up as slang.

Just that as a lay term people think of meth as amphetamine in the way that people think of champagne as wine.

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