Re: Tik Tak
Wide misuse of a word DOES change its meaning. I don't think you understand the concept of language, so I'll explain it to you. Language is a human construct that evolves over a time. When the majority of those who speak it change a word's definition so that it means something else, they have altered its meaning. Transcoding is becoming used so often to mean simply lossy to lossy conversion that its meaning is changing.
That's just how it works. Language evolves, and so do the definitions of words that go along with it. That is why today, reading Shakespeare's plays is torture because they don't make a whole lot of sense in today's language, even though they were written around 400 years ago. In 400 years, English has evolved enough to make Shakespeare's plays sound awkward and strange without study.
"****" was not even considered vulgar until the 1600s.
Originally posted by Ultra Magnus
That's just how it works. Language evolves, and so do the definitions of words that go along with it. That is why today, reading Shakespeare's plays is torture because they don't make a whole lot of sense in today's language, even though they were written around 400 years ago. In 400 years, English has evolved enough to make Shakespeare's plays sound awkward and strange without study.
"****" was not even considered vulgar until the 1600s.
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