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Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by abeppu on Friday December 01, 2023 @06:43PM (#38494158)
Words mean things. This word doesn't mean what you want it to mean, either according to the other people in the thread you're interacting with, or the source you decided to cite.

Etymology is not the sole determiner of meaning. We can call an area on the moon a "mare", and know this comes from the Latin for "sea", but "mare" in the context no longer means "sea".

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Re:Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth c... by uoaei on Friday December 01, 2023 @08:40PM (#38494967)
This word does indeed mean exactly what I want it to mean, you're cherry picking other aspects of the definition to somehow overwrite the original rather than to acknowledge that we both can be right in certain ways. I'm right about what this word literally means, you're right that carelessness wins the day when it comes to language drift.
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