Ignorance is easy to hide behind many words.

I like calling it bullshit[0] because it's the most accurate, most understandable, and the most fun to use with a footnote

0 (featured previously on HN) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

I'm glad we can agree. I also like communicating with people using a shared understanding of the words being used, i.e. their definitions.

You might be interested to learn that the people who write down the definitions in dictionaries consider themselves to be in the business of documenting usage, not bringing commandments on stone tablets down from the mountain.

Lol. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44091037