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Re:Starship / Super Heavy by dorkwood on Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:53AM (#25549175)
If most people are using a word to mean something different, doesn't that mean the meaning of the word has changed?
Re:Starship / Super Heavy by savanaly on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:17AM (#25549455)
If I choose to label them "incorrect" for their usage of "factoid", by your own argument I'm absolutely right.
Re:Starship / Super Heavy by jl6 on Sunday December 27, 2020 @02:04AM (#25549408)
Descriptivists may say yes, but that doesn’t mean people won’t try to stop the meaning drifting to prevent the past becoming inaccessible.
Re:Starship / Super Heavy by jdeibele on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:59PM (#25553345)
Seems to have happened with "momentarily". Used to mean "for a moment" but now most people use it to mean "in a moment".

I remember being amused the first time a flight attendant said "we'll be taking off momentarily".

Re:Starship / Super Heavy by alasdair_ on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:17AM (#25549264)
It depends which people you are talking to.