Actually I'll correct that.

Yes, I'm being pedantic, but there is a good reason for my pedantry. As has been discussed at length eslewhere - (but still needs to be said because a lot of people still don't get it) - all this definition stuff does matter, and matter a LOT.

Why? Well, if we don't use these words carefully - within a consensus, and with proper defintion and explanation when needed - we risk eroding our mutual ablility to track back, and uncover important 'archeological' information through music. And that DOES matter.

Also we contribute to a looseness of definition and attribution which can lead to the separation of writers' credits from their work, with potentially serious legal and financial consequences further down the line, through the foolish muddling of the separate meanings and legal definitions of the words folk and traditional