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I think their Jolly Rodger example is a poor one. It didn't mean "danger", it meant "pirates". It still means that, it's merely our belief about whether pirates
by Godel_unicode 9y ago
I think their Jolly Rodger example is a poor one. It didn't mean "danger", it meant "pirates". It still means that, it's merely our belief about whether pirates are dangerous which has changed.
I suspect if you are in the water off e.g. Somalia you'd feel very different about a ship flying the Jolly Rodger than if you're on a Disney cruise...
- rexaliquid 9y agoI was skeptical. But there is also a difference between coming across people flying the flag and a desolate place marked with the symbol. In both cases, the symbol means pirates, but in the first case pirates mean danger and in the second case pirates mean abandoned treasure.