Why not use proprietor?
Example: Is the proprietor of a bar the person running it or the landlord who owns the building?
A more clearcut case of semantic confusion I can see a crappy AI creating out of the blue would be:
"My proprietor said if I didn't pay the rent soon she was gonna ..."
Which clearly has a very different (and basically nonsensical) meaning than a the more natural formulation using the now thankfully forbidden L-word.
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
> A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business
How is that different from "property owner"? The difference is that to you, a native English speaker, landlord is a word you're familiar with. To others, it's a whole new word they need to learn, whereas property-owner is self-descriptive. It's like using good variable names in your code, you don't need to look up the definition of every word when you use re-use words that are common.
They mean different things: one is a subset of the other. A person who owns their own home that they live in is a property owner, but not a landlord.
Well that's new to me, because I absolutely do not get that from the term "property owner". For example, if I have a place I own that my brother lives in, and someone asks my brother "who is the property owner", he would definitely answer me. I own that property. How does the term property owner say anything about where the person lives in?
Our local immigration office recently picked a newer, better name, but since no one uses it, I'm sticking to the old one.
Another one is expat vs immigrant. I favor immigrant, but I can't rename expat insurance to immigrant insurance. The latter does not exist.
I use the gender-neutral "they" across the website, but sometimes "he" would be a lot clearer when replacing a singular noun like "the landlord".
Sometimes the common word is the right word to use. When in doubt, I refer to Google Trends.