[kazinator]

For dumber people it means that, not for younger people.

Younger is not a synonym for dumber.

There are young people who look up words and use them correctly, and there are old people who just ape other people's random shifts and misuses of a word in order to fit in.

[alephnerd]

You can't really moralize linguistic drift. By that standard your usage of "dumber" is grammatically incorrect with the 19th century English usage of the word Dumb. Language changes, grow up.

[kazinator]

It's not genuine linguistic drift. You and few people have your own meaning for widely used term (which you're entitled to have), and you're knowingly using that meaning in a situation where you know you are not surrounded by those people.

You made a comment elsewhere in the thread saying that HN was full of boomers.

Now it is clear you just actually meant people over thirty, which makes it true. Your usage of "boomer" has not yet passed into the main stream; it is not comparable to "dumb". Google Books easily finds a 1930's reference for the usage of someone "getting dumber and dumber".

I'm not moralizing, by thew way; dumber isn't a moral flaw. (By the mainstream definition of moral; maybe you have your own version of that too).

[karpierz]

> Your usage of "boomer" has not yet passed into the main stream; it is not comparable to "dumb".

Hate to break it to you, but it passed into the mainstream years ago.

[haskellandchill]

You appear to be correct, didn't even notice it happened guess I am boomer.