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by thecrumb 1298 days ago
My dad worked for Mead Containers for many years. If he was reading this he would complain because technically 'cardboard' as everyone calls it is really 'corrugated'. The corrugated board is made from multiple layers of 'cardboard'.
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The author hears you:

> Paper people tend to scoff at the word “cardboard,” which they consider inaccurate and a little gauche.

... but yeah, it'll be probably the equivalent of "blockchain" or "AI"/"machine learning", there's a nuance that bothers some people.

Or “crypto” to mean anything other than math.
I use "crypto" only when talking about Big Foot or a Chupacabra.
Could also be cryptosporidium. One ill child could infect a whole pool if you swallow some pool water...

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cryptosporidium%20pool...

As in, something a lot of people really really believe in but... the truth is scarier than fiction!