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Comment by nijaru | Hacker News Reader

This is not crypto news, but cryptocurrency news.

In a world where 'literally' can be defined as 'figuratively', I'm not sure why we bother splitting hairs on terminology... what is accepted is what is accepted.

> what is accepted is what is accepted

Is it accepted? I would agree only when it appears in the NYT or The Economist with its 'new' meaning.

It's a subset of lazy people in tech who are abusing 'crypto' at this point in time, not Valley Girls. There's an inflection point here to interdict the abuse, before it gains mass-usage.

I see it as hopelessly yelling at kids to stop walking on your lawn

What is actually happening is that someone tells other people on the lawn that they wish kids wouldn't walk (and poop) on it, and then some of those other people play kiddo advocate and yell at that person. The kids are aren't providing any active resistance at all compared to that.

I guess I don't see the "pooping" part, I just see them shortening a long word they happen to be using.

Also, the headline clearly says cryptocurrency, it seems to be the domain name he is complaining about.

Sorry, I don't agree with adding 8 letters to a url to make a very small segment of people (who are apparently not the target audience) happy.

I don't accept crypto to mean cryptocurrency.

It's like saying butter when you mean butterscotch. Doesn't mean the same thing and shouldn't.

Unfortunately, the world could care less about what you personally accept.

> could care less

Bait?

May be referencing https://xkcd.com/1576/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854042

And vice versa. Though actually, I can care less than I care about "what the world accepts", for example about some person speaking for the world. If you accept it, make your case; if you don't, leave "the world" out of it.

99% of the population would have never uttered the word "cryptography" before "cryptocurrencies" started to catch on.

In either case, crypto is an abbreviation.

This is being shown on HN, not Facebook.

@criddell: ok, carry on trying to keep the global slang out of your little utopic garden.

Anything is "accepted" (by someone, somewhere). That gives us no Information. FWIW, what is rejected is what is rejected, and I reject this abuse of language.

This isn't the world. This is Hacker News, which is full of people who know what crypto is and know what cryptocurrency is and can expect each other to do better than ambiguity.

The title of this article on hacker news is "a cryptocurrency news scraper"

But it is not accepted. You have people in every cryptocurrency thread reminding people that www.cryptoisnotcryptocurrency.com

I'd like to see other terms as well, incl. distributed ledger stuff.

disled

Cool. Ill add that to the list. Please provide suggestions of other topics and I will add it in :D

Sorry if I confused anyone, didn’t mean to start a flame war. It was just the first domain I found that was available, I didn’t think too much about it

this is called linguistic prescriptivism and its wrong

Calling out linguistic prescriptivism is almost as bad a social faux pas as the linguistic prescriptivism itself.

IMO it's far more misguided. We can push for precise and efficient language, or we can shrug our shoulders and let the lowest common denominator strip out all nuance.

I was cured of that particular delusion when I realized that language has literally always been attacked since the day it was created.

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