When you shove the cartridges that are clipped together into your Garand what are you shoving it into? You are shoving the cartridges clip and all into a magazine. Hence it is called an en-bloc clip. The Clip and all 8 of the cartridges get put into the magazine. On a 98 mauser, you use a stripper clip to put cartridges into the magazine. as the clip is discarded and does not go into the magazine after the cartridges are stripped from it.
Magazines hold cartridges to be fed into the chamber of a firearm. Clips are one way to load magazines. You can also load magazines one cartridge at a time by using your fingers or other tools.
When you shove a magazine into the magazine well of a semi auto pistol, you are NOT shoving a clip into a magazine. The magazine well of of semi auto pistol WILL NOT hold cartridges for feeding into the chamber of the firearm. Only the magazine will do that. IT IS NOT A CLIP.
The Magazine has feed lips that retain the cartridges and allow for feeding them into the chamber. Clips DON'T have feed lips. None of them. Not even the en-block clip you shove into your Garand. The magazine in the Garand serves that function.
Now all of that said, you can call a magazine a clip if you want to, and you can call a setting hen a rooster if you want to, but you would be using incorrect terms. So hopefully you will now understand why it is such a wrong terminology Savage Arms notwithstanding.
Words have meanings, and using the correct words that are generally accepted by the community that makes and uses these products are no different in this case than any other product. As an example if you want to call a steering wheel on an automobile a flywheel, you can feel free to do so.
That others might correct your wrong usage of words does not mean they are trying to feel superior. They are just trying to educate you on the correct terminology. Whether you feel inferior or not is totally up to you.
