There's a standard procedure for when a work wants to use non-standard definition of a term. The rules fit it to the T; the constructions I've given you follow it to the T. That's not obscurantism, that's step one to avoiding it.Originally Posted by NigelWalmsley
That you still keep harping about it, is no different to a medical doctor complaining to an electrician how they keep using "positive" and "negative" wrong. In natural language, words that are written and said the same sometimes still mean different things; most speakers of those languages cope with it just fine.