Language is made up of what we say, so if we call them penguins, they're penguins. There is no state of "penguin-ness" outside of language, so to suggest today's penguins are somehow not legitimate because another bird was once called penguin would just be silly.

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Me, and how well I understand quantum mechanics.

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