[Eroteme]

The legal definition of "gross negligence" is essentially "extreme carelessness".

Exactly!

[jcwky]

“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg”
-Abraham Lincoln

That is how a “tail” becomes a “leg” and how “negligence” becomes “carelessness”

Or in the famous words of Humpty Dumpty:

““When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”