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Re:Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before E... by MDCore on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:28PM (#10692439)
Are you wishing that the current usage of the word (the title you linked to) would stop, and that usage would revert to the older Latin meaning? Unfortunately that's not how language develops.
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Re:Amazon rainforest was home to millions of people before E... by rogerbinns on Monday December 07, 2015 @05:11PM (#10693130)
I am wishing that articles about history are more precise in their usage, since it can be difficult to tell which sense they mean of the word (historical, at the time of the material they are writing about, current meaning applied to back then).
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