You are seemingly intelligent enough to think of a witty Reddit name and even put a little clever flair next to it, yet this escapes you? Sweaty, go to an evening class or something....
Dictionaries compile how words are most commonly used and when a word has several common usages you get something like this (since I assume you've never opened an dictionary before):
plebeian adjective
/pləˈbiːən/
/pləˈbiːən/
1. connected with ordinary people or people of the lower social classes
* Such recreational activities were an essential part of plebeian culture.
2. (disapproving) having or showing no culture or education
* plebeian tastes
So there's two common usages for the word "plebian".
Usages don't change just become some Twittercel decides they and 400+ of their followers suddenly want it to mean something else.
If they somehow manage to get the majority of English speakers to change (which is a gradual process which takes time) the usage of a word it may gain an entry such as:
3. A person who posts on the Drama subreddit
* Especially when referring to DeadlyRNG
The dictionary does not convey the meaning of words only how those words are most commonly used.
Onafriday was correct even though I've never heard 20 year olds say "it's not as plastic as you're making it out to be though" and that usage doesn't show up in the dictionary I'll assume it's some teenage slang I can safely ignore, even though I understood the meaning of the sentence.
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5 Funkyduffy 2020-12-06
"AI Ethics" is code for "Pay me six figures to tell you your software is problematic"
3 Shitposting_Skeleton 2020-12-06
That was my thought too. Like what, are you going to tell me that my dumbass machine learning algorithm was being mistreated?
3 THE_LANDLORD_MESSIAH 2020-12-06
1 ballrot 2020-12-06
Wow I never would have guessed
2 SnapshillBot 2020-12-06
You are seemingly intelligent enough to think of a witty Reddit name and even put a little clever flair next to it, yet this escapes you? Sweaty, go to an evening class or something....
Snapshots:
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1 jimmerz28 2020-12-06
Yea I'm gonna count that one as a benefit.
Dictionaries shouldn't have their definitions updated constantly everytime someone decides to change the meaning of a word.
The next paragraph goes on to talk about Wikipedia and then I just couldn't go on after that.
1 DeadlyRNG 2020-12-06
That's literally how dictionary's work.
5 jimmerz28 2020-12-06
It's not though.
Dictionaries compile how words are most commonly used and when a word has several common usages you get something like this (since I assume you've never opened an dictionary before):
So there's two common usages for the word "plebian".
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/plebeian_1?q=plebeian [edit: add link]
Usages don't change just become some Twittercel decides they and 400+ of their followers suddenly want it to mean something else.
If they somehow manage to get the majority of English speakers to change (which is a gradual process which takes time) the usage of a word it may gain an entry such as:
3. A person who posts on the Drama subreddit * Especially when referring to DeadlyRNGThe dictionary does not convey the meaning of words only how those words are most commonly used.
Onafriday was correct even though I've never heard 20 year olds say "it's not as plastic as you're making it out to be though" and that usage doesn't show up in the dictionary I'll assume it's some teenage slang I can safely ignore, even though I understood the meaning of the sentence.
4 DeadlyRNG 2020-12-06
You probally made a good point but I didn't read that.
4 jimmerz28 2020-12-06
I didn't really expect you to tbh.
2 DeadlyRNG 2020-12-06
I'm glad that we didn't disappoint each other.
2 jimmerz28 2020-12-06
I always like to make sure both guys leave satisfied.
1 RecallRethuglicans 2020-12-06
It’s how the OED works
2 onafriday 2020-12-06
It’s not as plastic as you’re making it out to be though
1 Ultrashitposter 2020-12-06
AAAAAAAH The computer is noticing things! Shame it into submission!
It's like when they lobotomized Tay.