Do Words Mean Anything Anymore?
semantic drift: the slow change in words’ meanings over time. This principle also applies to cultural symbols, which can often come to mean the very opposite.
W. David Marx • Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
‘context collapse phenomenon’ that removes the term from its origin and transforms it into something else - Chris Danton, Good Thinking
These are not terms culled from random blogs and discussion forums. These are all taken, verbatim, from official websites of American and British universities. While it might be tempting to eye-roll and hand-wave away what those “crazy college kids” are doing, I would make this reply: official websites are run by administrators, not students, and w
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