Like it or not, Eric is totally correct.
It's telling that the understanding of the terminology comes from us older cats. Of course, being older must make us wrong, never mind the fact that we saw it happening fairly soon in the game, often before some of our young Turks were born.
It's as if sombody comes up with American football but insists on calling it soccer. How odd, and how unfortunate for the fresh faces who only manage to defeat their own enjoyment of photography by the attempted forcing of their square pegs into older round holes. You'd be forgiven for thinking that old tripod holes were sin enough.
But hell, what does it matter - it's all going down the tubes anyway.
You see? Positivity is my middle name!
:-)