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by scrollaway 1055 days ago
It’s the adopted term. I don’t see why it HAS to be the absolute exact closest possible term to what it would be in a human or something.

It feels a bit like saying “stop calling it e-mail! It’s got nothing to do with real mail!”

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Because people feel like they have nothing to add so instead of not adding anything they decide they have an issue with some minute detail that doesn't really matter and then start raising hell.