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by concreteblock 1863 days ago
Doesn't it just mean that the meaning of the word has changed?
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> 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.

No, it's just hyperbole.
Is changing, not has changed. If it already had, no one would remark on it.