I know you're not that dumb. Crime scenes are reconstructed, to try and get at the truth of what happened. Archaeological finds, like pots, ships, and buildings, are reconstructed to show what they originally looked like. There's no attempt to deceive in any of this. National Guard letters and fingernails are faked--they're trying to fool people.
Semantics are important--"words mean things," as the saying goes. Why try to pretend otherwise?
You should be so forgiving when creationists aren't so precise.
Do you have a particular example you're thinking of?
Yes, the word *theory*.
There’s been no end to chastisement of creationists for not using the word *theory* “as scientists use it”.
And then there was coyoteman’s list-o-definitions that he posted with clocklike regularity to anyone he felt was misusing a word.