Yes, yes, and copiers are all called xerox machines. One supposes, though, that the folks at Xerox see a difference between their machines and the others. This is, after all, a folk music forum.

You are stating obvious truisms -- no one would disagree that the word traditional has many meanings in different contexts. Isn't English a wonderful language? Everyone knows that all music is related; I myself have spent a lifetime exploring the strong similarities between the blues, medieval music, progressive rock, childrens' songs, and traditional idioms from all over Europe and America. I think we can all agree that everyone who makes music does it because they have it in them to do so; the desire to play or sing comes from a deep place within each of us, regardless of how that desire finds form. The emotions created or emphasized by music is the story of humanity, regardless of the genre of music or when or where it happens. How not? What's that got to do with whether or not a bunch of folk music enthusiasts should use the word 'traditional' to define a specific form of music so they can have a conversation about it?

Oh, and speaking of throwing insults around, what makes you think you know anything about the nature of my thinking and learning? And what did you find insulting about what I wrote? I may have misconstrued your words to mean that you don't see the differences between different types of music, or don't think they're important, and think that 'traditional' is a bad choice of word to use to discuss a type of music. If so, I think most everyone else here got the same idea, so perhaps you should explain yourself further. If you objected to my asking to leave, I don't apologize. I'd like to have a conversation on this subject without your antagonistic statements of obvious but completely tangential truisms.