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Different people have different interpretations of certain words depending on various factors (environment, culture, etc), and don't forget that words change me
by h_anna_h 5y ago
Different people have different interpretations of certain words depending on various factors (environment, culture, etc), and don't forget that words change meaning over time. He is simply coming from a culture where that word has evolved into being a generic insult. This is even more likely especially because it is a private repo, he would be less interested in writing in a way accessible to others compared to a public repo.
> The entire point of using words is that they are well-known abstractions used when communicating to other people
I will disagree with this, and so will every diary-owner and note-taker. In addition, even if this was true there are various languages (like tut) which are intended to be used within a specific community, just because something is written it does not mean that it needs to be understood by everyone, although it is desirable in public projects. Not to mention that this statement assumes that he knew that they would interpret it in a way which he did not intent.
Anyway, he made a new commit earlier today without it: https://git.tyil.nl/dotfiles/commit/?id=891b7a7a31941dfe253c794de469779cbb7ba28e https://git.tyil.nl/dotfiles/commit/?id=891b7a7a31941dfe253c...
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