"Articulated" doesn't quite work because the past tense shades towards meaning "movable with joints" instead of "express."
That didn't even cross my mind. That's probably "an engineer's perspective" so to speak.
These days, lots of words have different meanings to different people, depending upon the context of their lives, and it's getting really hard to treat anything as a lingua franca, even English which gets called "globish," because we have so many people with such rich and varied knowledge bases who use the same words to mean different things entirely.
I do agree that said is the better word, but mostly because it's shorter and more common and not because there is much risk of it being misinterpreted, given the context.
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"Articulated" doesn't quite work because the past tense shades towards meaning "movable with joints" instead of "express."
That didn't even cross my mind. That's probably "an engineer's perspective" so to speak.
These days, lots of words have different meanings to different people, depending upon the context of their lives, and it's getting really hard to treat anything as a lingua franca, even English which gets called "globish," because we have so many people with such rich and varied knowledge bases who use the same words to mean different things entirely.
I do agree that said is the better word, but mostly because it's shorter and more common and not because there is much risk of it being misinterpreted, given the context.
Honestly, to this native speaker, articulated was a perfectly good word choice in this instance & one that I might have made myself.
I agree; I don’t think the alternate meaning of 'jointed movement' is going to occur to the majority of people - it’s really not in common use.