Yeah, I agree, that sounds like word games. The whole point of it being relative is that rest and motion are indistinguishable without a point of reference. That point is the relative part.
An object is at rest with respect to its own reference frame.
> The academic descendants of the same academics who believed in absolute rest now call themselves physicists and make the same mistake and assume that absolute rest exists.
In other words, you think all physicists are wrong and you're right?