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"The Newspaper of Record" (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The dictionary is...literally (hello self-evidence) full of words for which there has long existed an 'Objective Definition' but which usage has brought a consensus based 'Subjective Definition'. Etymology is the study of a shifting process, and both you and them are correct:

Them in the expected usage a publication should use to apply it to a discreet entity, and you in the fact that the subjective shift in meaning gives us words that map anecdotally to our lives.

Truly...language is awe-some.