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minus-squareMentalEdge@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoCan’t argue with real-world use, but man that is a semantic shift that is doing the original word dirty. Apparently patronage and other forms of the word are having their definitions affected, too. I read a lot of books so I’m definitely a lot more used to how words are used up to several decades ago.
minus-squarewildginger@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoWelcome to humanity since the invention of language
Can’t argue with real-world use, but man that is a semantic shift that is doing the original word dirty.
Apparently patronage and other forms of the word are having their definitions affected, too.
I read a lot of books so I’m definitely a lot more used to how words are used up to several decades ago.
yup. language is weird
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