Sadly, i'm familiar with the illness, schizophrenia, having seen it up close. However, i tend to use the word in it's more colloquial meaning more often than not - i don't believe the meanings of words are fixed, and feel that the correct usage of language is actually that which conveys the information or image that you wish; rather than a usage that is literally correct.
But this runs the risk of thread-subversion, so i shan't expound any further on my obscure beliefs about semantics and linguistics. You should hear me expound on the subject of haikus and their potential uses in NLP... or not.
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