> What am I missing?

My joke?

(I always forget how HN is hostile to whimsy. Even when it is carefully signposted with an emoticon.)

Just to add though: a word making its way into a dictionary is no guarantee of its usefulness, correctness or value. It only means a couple of definitions have been found in print. That's the standard by which words make it into dictionaries; there's no semantic gatekeeper.

You're qualifying my response as "hostile?" I guess we're getting into fluid definitions, so sure :) I'm not sure calling someone wrong accompanied with an emoticon qualifies as whimsical, either.

All that said, "correct" in language is "incorrect" tomorrow. That's how it's always worked.

If I learned to accept "entitled" as meaning "given a title" I'm sure we can all handle a fairly terse and parseable usage for performant.

> You're qualifying my response as "hostile?"

No, not you -- that was exasperation at the sudden, aggressive downvoting of what was clearly signposted as a joke. > I'm not sure calling someone wrong accompanied with an emoticon qualifies as whimsical, either.

It was as clearly whimsical as I can make it. Complimenting on being wrong on something so small.

But you're just making my point for me. I genuinely forget this place hates jokes that don't come with footnotes.

> If I learned to accept "entitled" as meaning "given a title" I'm sure we can all handle a fairly terse and parseable usage for performant.

"Never give up! Never surrender!"

I think the issue is less jokes than posts without enough context to live on their own.

I've seen plenty of humorous posts received well here when they're not jokes for the sake of the joke.

Fair point.