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Re:Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you es... by cortesoft on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:41PM (#25411645)
This seems to all hinge on an overly specific definition of 'overt'.... while it's definition is something done openly with no attempt to hide, sometimes it is used for effect, to say something unintended is actually so apparent that it almost seems like it must have been done intentionally.

You might want words to be narrowly defined and used, but that isn't how language works.

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Re:Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you es... by bonoboTP on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:31AM (#25415842)
It's redefining words to retain "the punch", while being able to use it widely.

This is how Google now ended up being called "white supremacist" for firing a black AI ethicist (it was retweeted by a director of AI at Nvidia).

You can say (with a straight face?) that's just how language evolves, but I would find that deeply cynical.

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