<p>I don't see any problem with your asking that question.  Note that we have a tag for terminology (<a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/terminology" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;terminology&#39;" rel="tag">terminology</a>) with 81 so categorized questions to date (2/4/13).  </p>

<p>I do think that terminology can be somewhat fuzzy and frustrating, with different people using the same term to mean different things, or different terms to mean the same thing.  It is possible that a terminological question thus has no real 'right' answer.  If this troubles people, they may ask to have your question made <em>community wiki</em>, which is a status where you don't get any reputation for upvotes.  I could imagine that you might find this annoying, but it certainly wouldn't impact your ability to ask the question and get an answer.  (For the record, I don't think your question should have to be made CW, I'm just grasping for any possible complication.)  Other than that, I can't imagine any issues at all.  </p>
