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Although the new definition of entitlement - that means exactly the opposite of the old definition - is.

• titanomachy 6y ago
  Do you mean that the old definition is the right to have something, and the new version is the mistaken perception of that right?
  • kiplkipl 6y ago
    Exactly. So now using the old definition can be ambiguous and has to be replaced by something 'wordier'. I can't do anything about it but I do think it's a shame.
    • majormajor 6y ago
      The idea that "rightful entitlement" has a much older heritage than "perceived entitlement" doesn't seem supported: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4240 https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4240 > The earliest cluster of uses of entitlement meaning "(rightful) claim" that I've found is associated with post-WWII veterans' benefits, as in this 1947 Popular Mechanics ad > In the 1960s, psychoanalysts also start using entitled and entitlement with strongly negative connotations, resulting in the emergent term of art "narcissistic entitlement". > Meanwhile, by the 1970s, the phrase entitlement programs is being used in its modern sense (defined benefits paid by the federal government) in discussions of the federal budget — and the connotations are by no means positive.
      • kiplkipl 6y ago
        >Meanwhile, by the 1970s, the phrase entitlement programs is being used in its modern sense (defined benefits paid by the federal government) Right, but that's not the modern sense for the 1.2 billion English speakers who are not in the US