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This is a misunderstanding of what dictionaries are for. They’re not authoritative sources of what words mean, they’re a record of all the different ways a word
by Spivak 4y ago
This is a misunderstanding of what dictionaries are for. They’re not authoritative sources of what words mean, they’re a record of all the different ways a word has been used.
If people use the term robot to refer to assembly like machines then as far as the dictionary is concerned those are robots now. Someone who comes across a text and doesn’t know what the author is saying when they talk about robots used in manufacturing should be able to find that usage in a dictionary.
And there’s no reason these two terms can’t coexist happily enough as robot (manufacturing) and robot (automaton).
- m00x 4y ago> This is a misunderstanding of what dictionaries are for. They’re not authoritative sources of what words mean, they’re a record of all the different ways a word has been used. Source?
- Spivak 4y ago"dictionary, n. and adj." OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2022. Web. 20 January 2023.