> "present" is actually a standard date: January 1, 1950
which is an abuse of the English langauge, since "present" actually means "now." Scientists should not overload pre-existing English words to mean other things.
Why not? Because it confuses the overly-pedantic?
Have you ever used "dynamic" while not talking about physical forces? BOOM: you are an abuser! Repent! Repent!
If someone actually needs to say "before nuclear testing," which is very rare, they should say "before nuclear testing."
Dark ages Europeans should stop overloading Latin words like "lingua" to mean other things.
Modern humans should stop overloading words like "existing" to mean exactly the same thing...