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Masses dilute true meaning of words. It happened to few words: "hacker" - used to mean deep understanding of a system and using it in unusual or unintended way
by dvh 4y ago
Masses dilute true meaning of words. It happened to few words:
"hacker" - used to mean deep understanding of a system and using it in unusual or unintended way, now it means criminal
"troll" - used to mean creating specially crafted post to trigger emotional response (like a posting in star trek forum that trailer looks fake because we all know there are no shadows in space), now it means bully that wants someone to commit suicide.
"leak" used to mean data you can download, now it means someone stole the data.
- kortilla 4y ago“crypto” “literally”
- sharperguy 4y ago"ban" used to mean the prohibition of something, but now it's being used to mean the voluntary cessation of an action. E.g. "macdonalds bans plastic straws". No, they decided to stop using plastic straws.
- ben_w 4y ago"Orange", as the name of the order of British nationalists in Northern Ireland, named after the (Dutch) Prince William of Orange, named after the Principality of Orange (French), named after the city of Orange, named after the Celtic word for forehead or temple. The color of the Orange Order is named after the fruit, derived from a corruption of 13th century French or Spanish (approximately "an orange" ≈ "a norange" ~> naranja, but spellings from that era aren't consistent anyway), from Arabic, ultimately from an unknown Dravidian language.
- dredmorbius 4y agoHappy, awesome, enormity, sophisticated, egregious, cute, bully, girl, ... And of course: fast, inflammable, sanction, cleave, dust, bolt, oversight, peruse, table.