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Unfortunate ambiguous uses of the word drop throughout the otherwise excellent article
by nmstoker 2y ago
Unfortunate ambiguous uses of the word drop throughout the otherwise excellent article
- TimK65 2y agoThere are three uses of the word "drop," all of which are correct. The latter-day meaning of "drop" is an abomination.
- toast0 2y agoI dropped X off at Y. Then X dropped off the face of the map, never to be seen again. Many words and phrases in English are self-antonyms.
- fargle 2y ago> The src:shadow package had dropped a Debian-specific patch, shoot, that's evil. had not noticed this. i read this as "removed", not "was released". now idk. this pseudo-definition of dropped as "released" is beyond stupid. yikes!