halalmoney on Nostr: *Living languages drift. They can’t help it. Meaning slides as power shifts, ...

*Living languages drift. They can’t help it. Meaning slides as power shifts, incentives change, and fashion intrudes. The word stays put. The referent moves.

Inflation is the clean example. It once meant expansion of the money supply. Now it means rising prices. Same word. Different pointer. Anyone with a long-duration contract learned what semantic drift costs when the bill came due.*

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This is a very interesting take: Bitcoin as digital Latin

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bitcoin-as-digital-latin-asymptotic-ossification-and-the-end-of-semantic-drift/2214