> but honestly... who cares? Words are just tools to communicate ideas That's the problem. If definitions constantly shift, then the signal-to-noise ration is

> but honestly... who cares? Words are just tools to communicate ideas That's the problem. If definitions constantly shift, then the signal-to-noise ration is much higher. It means that we no longer have an efficient way of conveying meaning. In engineering and science, terminology has to have very specific meanings, or the words become unusable for reasoning. The idea that "pffft... whatever... words... am-I-right?" seems to come from the angle of post-facto justification of using incorrect terminology, or as a mechanism for gas-lighting people into believing something that has little foundation in the real world. This is something advertisers and politicians are constantly striving to do. I really hate that this has leaked into technology discussions, but here we are.