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If you're right then it's a sad situation. I hate it when terms start morphing into unrelated interpretations by means of public drift.
by eliben 13y ago
If you're right then it's a sad situation. I hate it when terms start morphing into unrelated interpretations by means of public drift.
- plorkyeran 13y agoIn this case at least the meaning it's drifting towards still actually means something rather than just a meaningless buzzword.
- Helianthus 13y agoJust wait until Big Data is referred to similarly to Big Oil...
- Thrymr 13y ago> I hate it when terms start morphing into unrelated interpretations by means of public drift. That's how language has always worked. There are people who are still uptight by the current "misuse" of words like "awesome" and "hopeful", but those of us who grew up with different meanings in common usage mostly just shrug. For technical terms, usually I can live with words having domain-specific meaning that differs from common usage, but "theory" is one I still can't get over. It causes too much miscommunication.