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> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 18:15:56 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> 
> > There's no need for "Anti-Glossary" [...]
> 
> > > A next step might be to cross-index those "current" terms
> > > with the "traditional" ones.
> > 
> > These are already in the Glossary.
> 
> Thanks for the clarifications, Eli. Still, I feel that someone
> "entering" this world might be a bit... lost. Obviously some
> phantasy is needed to come up with a helpful scheme which doesn't
> bring about too much collateral damage?

Sure.  I just wanted to point out that if we want to add to the
Glossary a few more of the widespread terms for which Emacs has its
own names, we could.