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>>>> Your preference (unfortunately enshrined in OO jargon)
>>>> does serious violence to English grammar!
>>>> 
>>>> An <x>or is something that performs or implements <x>,
>>>> not something that has <x> performed upon it!
>>>> 
>>>> An actor is not a script.

>>> What about "polymorphism"? It means exactly the opposite to what its
>>> translation suggests (many-formed/shaped).
>> 
>> You have lost me. It means exactly what it says.
>
> But there is only one form (~interface) of a polymorphic thing. Substance
> (~implementation) is different. They should probably take "convergent"
> instead.

Wow, inbelievable. It actually works: If your original proposition is
untenable, just open up another mostly unrelated but equally untenable
line of argument. Repeat ad libitum.

For more inspiration I suggest
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/. Your own "But what about
<some completely unrealted subject>" is probably not among
them. You're indeed writing the book there.

Regards -- Markus