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by dreamcompiler 784 days ago
I do find it annoying that Elon Musk redefined a well-understood automotive term to refer to a completely different automotive term.

Of course we're not innocent here. What does gate mean in electronics? What does persistent mean in computer science? What does memory mean in computer engineering?

Context matters.

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I just make a new words. Such as "dojober".

Dojober (noun): A handcrafted thing that makes it possible to do a job (i.e., complete a task).

Synonyms: widget, contraption