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by dec0dedab0de 255 days ago
You can feel socially anxious without having social anxiety.

That is not true in plain English, just because a particular profession decides to use words one way, does not mean the definitions change for the rest of us.

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> just because a particular profession decides to use words one way, does not mean the definitions change for the rest of us

This is a particular pain in physics, which has taken very commonly used words and given them a very narrowly defined meaning, within a strict framework - like the words Energy or Work