the id, the ego, & the single misfiring brain cell - Latest Comments on what words mean

Peachy [Visitor] in response to: what words mean

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:34:20 +0000

Ah, you’ve stumbled on my plan to change an epithet for a group of caucasians to mean a flock of geese! In 30 years, they, instead, will be known as “honkies.”

Rog [Visitor] in response to: what words mean

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:01:38 +0000

Ahhh…Duplicity, the haven of an uncertain mind. All most as bad “You know…” No, I DON’T know.

Rog

Hinermad [Visitor] in response to: what words mean

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:01:36 +0000

Diana,

If you can’t use a different meaning for a word, then how do word meanings drift over time? Somebody must have gone off the script at some point.

(I kid. I know very well how drift happens.)

But I also get very annoyed when people do it intentionally to stack the deck in their favor. It’s a variation of telling a lie long enough and loud enough until people believe it.

Dave