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by esperent
1031 days ago
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> told by people who are younger than my career that my use of a term is incorrect Being old doesn't make you wise, or right. It's nonsense to demand that meaning of words will never change, because change over time is just how language works. That's how we got from Chaucer, to Shakespeare, to modern English. The changes do happen fast enough to be noticeable in a single lifetime. As you grow older, it's important to track these changes. You don't have to agree with them or like them. But sometimes you might have to accept the new meanings anyway. |
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are you serious?
being old doesn't inherently make you know things, no, and that is absolutely not what I was saying.
I was around when the term was coined and I used it in conversation with others. After that the people who argue with me today tell me that my use of the term then was wrong were born.
Wikipedia is wrong about the origins of this term; I was using it in 1998 in the #slashdot IRC channel, and that's where I was introduced to the term.
why in the hell do you think I was saying that age alone grants knowledge? that is a leap greater than I've seen in a long time.