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Originally Posted by elcreative
Local networks within office buildings etc. already have a term - intranet and internet refers to the whole system which includes the WWW but is also Usenet, email and other things such as IRC so the whole "bait'n'switch only works by using terminology incorrectly anyway...  |
Yes, I knew the internet/intranet distinction, but it didn't change the essence of the fallacy.
Bait-n-switch
can work by using terminology incorrectly, but there are terms that have different meanings in different contexts -- see the "format" example above. Language is fun like that.
