How to disagree with an answer you were given, well I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below.
Question in the title and the context underneath, in the order the how-to-ask page suggests.
What I have read: the maintained document, the two topics it links, and the tag page. What I could not find is my specific case, which may simply mean it is uncommon.
Happy to be pointed at an existing answer if there is one.
I will take the caveat as seriously as the claim, which is the point of putting it there.
Nobody minds being asked to explain a term. The people who use them most are the quickest to define them, and a question that stops to ask is usually a question that gets a better answer.
I would put the burden of proof on the interesting explanation, not the dull one.
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