terminology!

[ravi]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> 
> Endless confusion seems to be generated by the spontaneous assumption of
> non-mathematicians (-physicists, biologists, etc) to realize that when a
> word is used in a specific scientific context it loses _all_ the meaning
> it carries in ordinary language. There has been an incredible amount of
> really stupid literary criticism written by critics who think "chaos"
> means chaos and "entropy" means entropy.
> 

there's the other side: those who love to correct less nuanced folks by
pointing out, usually by interrupting a casual conversation, that a
whale (or dolphin) is a mammal, not a fish. right up there with the
smart fellows who took particular pleasure in pointing out a few years
ago, that "jan 1, 2000 is really not the start of the new millenium, you
know?".

of course i often wish you folks would stop saying IP for intellectual
property! IP is the internet protocol! ;-)

	--ravi