Re: The really dumb thing about the planetary classification conference

Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
I'm afraid I have no idea, Harlan, but what irritates me no end about
the
new term is that "[adjective] planet" should logically be a hyponym of
"planet". I really dislike that sort of jargon. In fact, my aversion to
usages like the following probably made it easier for me to empathise
with
Daniel's preoccupation with the meanings of "rare".
The exceptions perplex even further: "fake planet" or "phony planet"
would not logically be a hyponym of "planet".

And "apparent exception" somehow manages to simultaneously be a hyponym of
"exception" and, er, something else.

Is that like "the smallest natural number that can't be described in under sixty-eight letters"?
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