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Words mean whatever the people who say them and the people who hear them think they mean. Your "distinguished instructor" doesn't get to decide what "PA" or "SR" or "Sound System" mean to everyone who says these things or hears these things.
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This reply makes absolutely no sense. Perhaps you might change your mind when your doctor asks for a tongue depressor and the nurse hands him an anal probe.
"Oh, sorry doctor, but to me tongue depressor means anal probe."
"No problem, I actually needed a stethoscope, but I refer to it as a tongue depressor."
That's called
reductio ad absurdum, by the way. I learned it from my high school debate teacher. Would you like to discredit her, too, while you're at it?
-Matt