• onslaught545@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    They were taking about pedophile being used colloquially. Medical definitions and social definitions often differ.

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      5 months ago

      When the word is a medical, technical, or scientific word the actual definition is the only definition and anyone else using it differently is just wrong.

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          5 months ago

          No for example your lung will never mean your kidney even if the majority of people failed anatomy technical terms mean what experts say they mean not what others say