[BoorishBears]

No, I can and I will, and it will still be truthful.

Because to most people with a firm understanding of the nature of English my statement means:

"When I, in current times not 40 years ago, hear people talk about C, they most often refer to it as a systems level language".

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Of course, I forget this is HN and there are some people who think that it means:

I have never seen "C" and "low level" on the same line of text!

For these unfortunate cases, there is a belief that 40 year old K&R references (...) and some hastily assembled search results will change my reality... but that's a separate issue I'm not interested in.

Those people are definitely free to consider me a liar, the world will keep spinning for the rest of us.

[eesmith]

I don't like responding to anecdotes with anecdotes, so rather than reply with a (IMO pointless) "what?! I hear people talk about C as a low-level language far more often than I hear them talk about it as a systems language", I prefer to give something more substantial.

Restricting my hastily assembled search to HN, I easily find comments from within the last few months referring to C as a low-level language ... and yes, as a systems language too.

HN is a casual setting with newer programmers.