http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Old_Kentucky_Home
You think that the term is being used incorrectly. If that is the way
everybody else uses the term today, they are using it correctly. You
might argue that the meaning of the phrase has changed in recent
years, but for that you'd need evidence.
A single counter-example? Dating from when?
I'm sure that the 555 is an okay chip for some (very few) applications
- I've not seen one yet but that doesn't mean that such applications
don't exist. It is still a POS.
Your position is that you know that the "silent majority" agrees with
you. This is the sort of "knowledge" that is acquired by revelation or
delusion. Either way, you should take whatever it is you use as a
organ of cognition to the nearest psychiatric institution for long
overdue maintenance.
Or so you claim.
Where do you see it done "all the time"? The telephone system never
bothered with what you call true dry switching, and for a very long
time they were the major users of mechanical switches.
For a sufficiently low current, this claim is obviously true. You
might usefully argue about what constitutes a sufficiently low
current, but have instead chosen the daft no-threshold position.
I know you don't understand most of the stuff I post, which leaves you
free to console yourself with idea that it is all bullshit. Dream on.
Not having been obliged to take remedial English, which would have
been the Australian equivalent of English 101, I didn't get the
opportunity to sleep through that particular course. Enclosing your
quote from my post in double quotes did no more than identify it as a
quote. To qualify as an 'idiosyncratic academic' I'd still have to be
both idiosyncratic and an academic, and I'm not an academic. So not
only do you not know what an academic is, but you also have defective
ideas about punctuation. And you haven't yet realised that the 555 is
a POS.