And a spattering of domain subject experts being offended that they don't have veto power over colloquial terminology

You can just keep calling it a planet in everyday conversation if that's your jam. There's no astronomy police that will come to get you if you do.

Just expect to be corrected and "well, achually"-ed by people who follow the current naming system, especially in science circles.

	▲	cwillu 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'm amused that you described a group policing terminology right after saying there's no group policing terminology.
	▲	mturmon 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Right. Somewhat similar to other dual-use words like “work”, “energy”, “power”, “momentum”. With such “well, ackshually”s as “you didn’t really do any work at all when you were pushing on that tree trunk” and “you specified watts, but you really wanted to use lumens”.