Man, so many people in this thread just arguing pointless semantics, making weirdo absolutist (and incorrect) statements.

Accept that other people may ascribe different meanings/interpretations to words than you, and that if your reading of their statement doesn't make sense to you, perhaps you are simply reading it wrong.

Trying to hold someone else to your definition of words suits what purpose exactly? Are you just trying to "win" ?

exactly. Usually legacy code forms when people lose context and confidence in parts of the codebase due to staff turnover etc and ppl avoid touching or enhancing those parts for long periods. Six months is a short time to accrue that much tech debt, its enough time where most of the people who created that "legacy" are probably still around. As you said indicates bigger problems.