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Errors have the connotation that something has gone wrong, exceptions do not. Exceptions as used in CS also do not have the connotation that they are unusual, as pointed out by the article. But generally, every error can be made into an exception.

As far as deciding on what they mean, I have brought up ChatGPT's definitions in arguments and been laughed at. People seem more interested in arguing than in making their vocabulary precise.



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