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When you then say you mean to be "within the bounds of scientific discourse,"

I said no such thing. I am not the person who used the word "evolve". I merely am capable of understanding that sometimes pedantry doesn't actually help anything.

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So why did you respond to pedantry with more pedantry?

Evolve means gradual change to me. For the more sophisticated amongst us, we are able to take the root meaning of the word and understand it's implication in different contexts.

My statement sometimes pedantry doesn't actually help anything implies that sometimes it does help things. IMO this was one of those occasions.

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