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Sorry, had to downvote this as you have to be trolling.

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No, no, it's true: he did invent email. He just didn't do it first.

but "invent" is defined as "create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of."

If you have to play with the semantics of the words this much the argument is invalid.

You mean if you have to use the definition of the word?

That many downvotes is unfortunate...

But words are not these neat bundles of data like JSON or XML. They mean different things to different people.

Once mud has been thrown on an argument and everything is see because of the murky grey areas pulling out a dictionary won't help. The other side will just pull out one with a definition that meets their needs.

The most you could say is that he re-invented it independently. But plain “invented” is simply not true.

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