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[nathanm]

In a perfect world, you might be right.   

I don't know if I'd call a world where words actually have meaning perfect, but it would definitely be one in which it is easier to communicate.

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I don't know if I'd call a world where words actually have meaning perfect, but it would definitely be one in which it is easier to communicate.

I'll add that words have to have the same meaning to large groups of people. 

My favorite on this forum is "trolley".  To me it means an electric powered, steel wheel, fixed rail guided vehicle with the electric power generally obtained from an overhead wire.  (I'll go along with 3rd rail systems and there were some attempts at underground wires.)  To many on this forum, it also includes that rubber tired, internal combustion engine powered, guided by a human driver vehicle that is made to look like some early 20th century trolleys.  I am not saying the latter is a bad vehicle.  It just isn't what I picture when the word "trolley" is used. 

[nathanm]

To many on this forum, it also includes that rubber tired, internal combustion engine powered, guided by a human driver vehicle that is made to look like some early 20th century trolleys.  I am not saying the latter is a bad vehicle.  It just isn't what I picture when the word "trolley" is used. 

Must be nice to be right. Buses are not trolleys, even if you dress them up like a trolley.

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Must be nice to be right.

With some education indoctrination time you too may get that feeling.   

[sgrizzle]

I think they already built this, made a movie about it: