my tentative sense is we should not be real-time editing the dictionary, with an overtly partisan bias, to fuel a highly-public, ultimately fleeting political spat call me crazy
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This makes me wonder what or if there is an optimal rate of change to the definition of words within a language. Intuitively too high a rate of change and a language becomes non functional but I have no idea how valid that intuition is
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I think if you took a measure of proximity words that you’d at least have a baseline from which to work. I don’t know that’s the right way overall but I’d think you’d start seeing groupings or pairings that help indicate applied definition? Just a thought
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Could have 22 years of data here, might be enough: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.merriam-webster.com/ …
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