didn't you mean to say, "you and I were both on the side of preserving terminological distinctions."? [evil grin emoticon]Nope, m'dear: In the immortal words of Dr. Seuss, "I meant what I said and I said what I meant."
Each of us was acting independently of the other, not collaboratively.
Quite characteristically; a board-member (I dasn't say "ayleur" 
) tends to have a strong streak of independent-mindedness! a double-dactyl illustrative as to word-usage (but not, let me hasten to add, illustrative of my view of F
):
Higgledy-piggledy.
Gilbert and Sullivan
Collaborated and
Got very rich.
Nevertheless, and quite
Characteristicallly
Each thought the other
A bit of a twitch.
