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It bothers me that the re-purposing of words is getting so pervasive. It's good that people like you spot it and call it out.
by dhimes 5y ago
It bothers me that the re-purposing of words is getting so pervasive. It's good that people like you spot it and call it out.
- woleium 5y agoWhy? Languages are constantly evolving, and always have been. Chaucer (middle English) is so far from modern English that it may as well be a completely different language, and yet it's what was spoken in England at the time (ad1400). Here is an example (with modern English translation): https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/millers-prologue-and-tale https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/millers-prologue-and-t...
- dhimes 5y agoThat's a slow change. That's not so bad. What's happening today seems to be deliberate change to recast ideas (and people) in a particular light for the purposes of persuasion or even deceit.
- woleium 5y agoWe must learn the newspeak, or its to room 101 with us all! /s (it's an Orwell reference)
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- noir_lord 5y agoThat's neat. If I try and read it silently it's much harder than just reading it, then it sounds like my grandfather who had a really strong Yorkshire accent.
- lokimedes 5y agoTry being a physicist surrounded by frontend developers babbling on about coding in Atom, using Electron as a framework and catching that rocket ship by deploying everything as micro-services with Nuclio.
- dhimes 5y agohaha as a physicist I totally feel it!