> Doesn't it just mean that the meaning of the word has changed?
...I do feel a bit bad amount mentioning it, because it's pretty tangential to what the article is actually about. That said: Changes in meanings of words often go hand-in-hand with broad-based changes in the way people think about something, and it's useful to reflect on whether or not one wants to go along with that thinking.
There is even a bit of a clichee anyway around sciency-engineeringy folk falling within the "obsessive" range of the personality spectrum in the very original sense of the word where it might be something that a psychotherapist might work on to try and rectify. So when I see it in this particular sphere being attached to a positive value judgment and even with slightly prescriptivist overtones, then it's something that to me really "pops" and it's been happening to me more and more lately.
...I do feel a bit bad amount mentioning it, because it's pretty tangential to what the article is actually about. That said: Changes in meanings of words often go hand-in-hand with broad-based changes in the way people think about something, and it's useful to reflect on whether or not one wants to go along with that thinking.
There is even a bit of a clichee anyway around sciency-engineeringy folk falling within the "obsessive" range of the personality spectrum in the very original sense of the word where it might be something that a psychotherapist might work on to try and rectify. So when I see it in this particular sphere being attached to a positive value judgment and even with slightly prescriptivist overtones, then it's something that to me really "pops" and it's been happening to me more and more lately.