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Message: [QUOTE="veivoli, post: 5314047, member: 14073"] Hmmm... As a lapsed physicist with a side of maths, I would have thought that "binary" (as in binary star) was more appropriate than binomial. However, to quote: "When [I]I[/I] use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." But without using Google, who am I quoting? Two further suggestions for discussion of language, without wanting to hijack this thread: [LIST=1] [*][B]Careless Concatenation.[/B] Running together two words that should be separate, such as "a while" and "a lot". [*][B]Sounds-like Syndrome.[/B] Apart from common examples such as their/there/they're and compliment/complement, I see a lot of just plain wrong words that make me wonder if people are using voice-to-text software and either not proofreading, or are incapable of recognising errors. [/LIST] I am fond of saying that English is a dying language, if not dead already! And very few people care... [/QUOTE]