• MystikIncarnate
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    14 hours ago

    I get it. I miss when words meant something specific.

    The one I’m still unhappy about is jealousy. It used to just be the fear of losing something you have. Now it also means wanting something you don’t have.

    Envy is a term that always meant, wanting something you do not have.

    Over time, people have used the terms so wrong that the definition changed.

    I think it says something about society that we have a word that means something, but we used another word to mean that thing so much that we changed the definition of the word to fit the usage.

    Oh well. This is why we can’t have nice things.