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by hinkley 725 days ago
Everyone laughs when I say this but pull up a thesaurus. When you change the semantics of a thing, you have to change names to have old+new live at the same time. Don’t trust your mastery of English (especially if it’s your second language). There’s a synonym out there that describes the new behavior as well or even better.
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Exhibit A.