The narrowing of vocabulary

[Wilson Gray]

"Retinal scientist" to Slashdot:

"[T]he pixels are not
square. Rather, they are rectangular."

Has it become the case that a "square" is no longer considered to be a
kind of rectangle, whereas a "rectangle" can be only an oblong?

--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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