English was "screwed up" long before the modern generation got its grubby paws on it, and jargon and slang have been injected into it for centuries. And in truth, English (and most other languages) has never been exact enough for truely good technical use. Its conjunctions do not reflect any sort of consistant logic system, such as boolean logic. And its nouns are fuzzy in definition at best. Often times, such as in Law, a special set of rules and deffinitions must be created for a language to be used in a technical manner, and this set of rules and deffinitions doesn't always (or even usually) completely line up with the accepted or common deffinition or use of the word, which creates confusion (and allows politicians to play the public, and allows laws to be redefined without any sort of action by a legislative body).
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2007-12-23
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