> Precision of ideas isn't purity of language

That's fair. Was trying to be funny, so glossed over the difference. Leaving my post above unedited/undeleted as a testament to your precision, and evidence of my folly.

Onwards; more appropriate rebuttals:

"English is a precision instrument assembled from spare parts during a thunderstorm." --ChatGPT

“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” -- Doug Larson