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Re: A Hacker Is A Criminal
said by 91439306  :said by hpguru :Why would someone want to hang onto a word anyway? We change, our language changes with us. Because words must have absolute meaning, if we as a society are to remain stable and civilized. Well, that's just it -- words don't have an absolute meaning. They have currently used meanings, and generally accepted meanings. Those are what you find in the dictionary.
If what you are saying were correct, the meaning of words would not change over time. But they do. They do simply because people start using them differently, and when it comes time to write a new dictionary, the way the word is being used by the majority goes into the book, not the way it's used "properly".
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