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by everheardofc 3209 days ago
Words mean whatever the people want them to mean. Just pick whatever word you want. That's how language evolves.
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Yes, especially people as a collective rather than individuals.
XKCD related to the topic: https://www.xkcd.com/1860/
Erm.. in social discourse maybe, but in technical language its generally quite explicit. This is why we have the design pattern language. To communicate effectively, technical concepts.

If someone refers to a MVC implementation as Command-Pattern, correct them. The same goes for language definitions.