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by spindritf 4632 days ago
Could we ban the words "bubble" and "disrupt" from submission titles?
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Disrupt is fine. Its basically a quick way of saying a company is in a specific industry.

disrupt industry x.

Bubble, lets lose that. People are so bad a predicting bubbles it is laughable.

That's what disrupt means now. It used to mean a company is changing the way an industry does business. But then everybody started claiming they would do that, no matter how trivial the change, so now it means "there's a new company in this industry and it has a hip website."
Yeap, it definitely has changed definitions. I would never use the term, but it definitely has changed definitions.