HalMorris comments on You can't signal to rubes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: HalMorris 02 January 2013 01:46:38AM 3 points [-]

If you're using an extremely common word like "signaling," you don't get to arbitrarily redefine it.

I'm not totally against redefining, or introducing a technical meaning for a common word that is used in some discipline, but doing that and then complaining about how other people are misusing the word is too much.