Steve commented: > Well, there's a difference between the evolution of word meanings as show > in that article and what we have here. This was not gradual evolution, it > was a charismatic writer who simply used it wrong, exactly opposite to the > accepted meaning, and all his acolytes simply went along. > But the same thing happened with the words on the TED list, right? Someone, at some moment in the past, used a word incorrectly. Their incorrect use of the word influenced someone else (an "acolyte") to do the same, and so on and so forth, n*ice* no longer means *silly*. It means pleasant or agreeable. In other words, what we now see as an evolution of the meaning of the word *nice *was really just a choice made by one person that ended up catching on, just like BSNYC's use of the word Fred, and I don't think it makes a difference if it takes ten years or 100 for the new meaning to catch on.
On a related note, I think BSNYC is hilarious. Bob K. in Baltimore -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
