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throw0101dtoday at 1:11 PM1 replyview on HN

> And then I might complain about we use the word "weight" for something massless, or how "bugs me" is entomologically incorrect: https://xkcd.com/1012/

"Communicating": https://xkcd.com/1860/


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ben_wtoday at 2:52 PM

Not sure how the quoted examples fits with your link, TBH.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/descriptive-vs-presc...

Prescriptively, a "model weight" weighs nothing. Descriptively, this is stupid: a new meaning was created by common use.

*Common* use says the weights you can download and run locally are "open source". May not like it, but it's not one person acting alone; and neither are the objectors to the shifting language, it's just the former is more "common" than the latter.