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Semantic drift is of course a very natural thing that can’t be stopped.

A very fun thing is to look up word origins of words and terms I care about. There’s often a revealing or thought provoking history.

One of my favorites is the German word “enttäuschen” which means to disappoint but has a different original meaning.

However what irks me is when interest groups try to force a semantic change in order to fullfil a typically financial or political agenda.

Terms that have a positive connotation like “Open Source” need to maintain a degree of integrity in order to stay useful at all.



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