But, similarly, if you're setting up a data lake, a co-located collection of Parquet files that share the same schema is often colloquially referred to as a "Parquet table". And it's common put some extra layers beyond just squirreling some files away on a disk somewhere to manage and govern these logical units that people call Parquet tables.

I think that the people elsewhere in this thread who are trying to be pedantic about this are maybe more familiar with some of the individual open source technologies that are used in data lake applications than they are with conventions around how these technologies get assembled into a full-fledged data management system in a business setting?

In other words, it seems like people who are trying to talk about the forest are getting downvoted and picked on by a bunch of folks who seem to maintain that there is no forest, only trees.