Definitions of words that have changed over time...
I'd say that happens even if we don't realize it. I'd also say there is a reason those definitions are changed/altered. I often think it'd be nice to have it noted when a definition is changed and to know what it used to be as well.
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There’s a song “Back When” and some of the lyrics:
“ Back when a hoe was a hoe Coke was a coke And crack's what you were doing When you were cracking jokes Back when a screw was a screw The wind was all that blew And when you said I'm down with that Well it meant you had the flu”
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@Thedoorislocked That's a really good example... and a song I had forgotten...
@SW-User my Own Kind of Hat by Merle Haggard some lyrics. On a roll lol.
“ There's two kind of lovers and two kind of brothers, And two kind of babies to hold. There's two kind of cherries and two kind of fairies, And two kind of mothers I'm told, and told”
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How about gun. This is not meant to be political, but it used to mean something that your fired from your shoulder after stuffing all that stuff in there with a rod (not meant to be sexual either). Now it’s anything that you can carry that is not designed to shoot down a plane.
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@Jill1990 Hmmm.. improvements on guns makes the difference? I'm no expert in this. I am just going with the idea things are improved upon but the definition stays the same?
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I hate it. These days, you could ask 5 people what a word means and get 5 different answers and be lucky if even one of them is the real definition. On top of that, words that [i]actually [/i]mean those things already exist, so why not just use them?
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@Redstar Yep.... a whole world full of different meanings to words than use to be... or definitions changed to fit what others wish a word to mean now.
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The definitions get altered to satisfy the needs of the user. Connotations of a word take the place of the original definition. Take, for example, the original definition of the word, "nice." (Taken from an old Oxford, Universal dictionary.)
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Agreed. I see all kinds of people using the term “woke” who have no clue where the term comes from and in what context it was originally used. It’s slang, but it’s not new.
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