The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #157751 Message #3725221
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
21-Jul-15 - 10:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: When did tips become hacks?
Subject: RE: BS: When did tips become hacks?
All languages (English in this case) are continually in the process of change. New words come along, become fashionable, and replace old ones. Old words change their meanings by a little, or a lot. Next circumstances, new objects, new procedures, new habits call for new words to express them, and then the new words (bewailed by many) are adopted, perhaps misunderstood and misapplied, broadened in meaning.
Pedants (like me, alas!) have for literally thousands of years been viewing this kind of change in their beloved languages with alarm, but all to no avail. They have complained that the new words or new meanings are useless, misleading, confusing, ugly. But the change process goes on.