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This reminds me of those insisting that drones are not drones, but quad-copters (what about those with 6 propellers?)

Language is defined by it's usage.

Taken to extreme, I've seen serious linguists argue that if a lot of different background non-native speakers make the same mistake when speaking English, maybe they are right and the native speakers are wrong.

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Maybe it's just me, but I really don't like this view in this case.

Crypto in cryptocurrency still stands for cryptographic and by using crypto for cryptocurrency we are making things harder to understand for eveyone.

Of course language evolves, but I think, given the chance, we should make it easier to understand and not harder.

Edit: spelling

How do we make it harder exactly?

I have never seen a linguist argue that. Usually the deference to native speakers is absolute, for good reason.

Unless you want to talk about an „international English“ or so.

You are somewhat right, I've seen it when reading about ELF (English as Lingua Franca).

But respected native English linguists were arguing that "English does not belong to native speakers"

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