"it is perfectly fine to defer to the original meaning to avoid confusion" Well, I kind of tried that method for some time, but for some reasons I was not able

"it is perfectly fine to defer to the original meaning to avoid confusion" Well, I kind of tried that method for some time, but for some reasons I was not able to avoid confusion. Maybe because people care more about what a word means to them today and not what it meant 2000 years ago?