Comment by ux266478

> I'm not referring to the verb form

The original post prompting your complaint used the verb form. And hence why you're confused.

> It's embarrassing, or it would be if people were still possessed of the capacity for shame.

It's far more shameful to fly off the cuff with a non-sequitur by your own admission, and double down on yelling at the clouds when called out for it. And about an arbitrary point in a semantic treadmill, no less. Your take away is that it was never something of note for these people, and trying to pick semantic fights with them over it just makes crying about legitimacy ironically turn into pure pretense.