Anyone else noticed definitions of certain words are changing ?

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Growing up I was always one of those kids looking stuff up including the meaning of words.

Now into my adult hood I’ll have get into some type of debate and hear a people use a word then I correct them on it or say to myself they didn’t use it right. I go back to look it up and sure enough, the definition has been tweaked, particularly to fit a whatever agenda is trending for the past while :patrice:
 

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In this white supremacy society we live in they change what shyt means on the liberal side that's why they are called liberal. Makes it easy for them to pull the ladder up on us. We think its 1 way then they change shyt, new set of rules. The conservative side just says they ain't changing shyt and things need to stay as they are or go back to what they were. We're fukked on both sides.
 

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That's a property of 'living' languages. They change.

'phat' meant something totally different when I was a small child and changed when I became a teenager.​
First time I heard somebody say phat but wasn’t talking bout a woman’s behind or BabyPhat was Eminem on Stan. Years later I heard my big fat white supervisor at work say it too in the original way. Seems like it was a Cac word back in the day.
 

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First time I heard somebody say phat but wasn’t talking bout a woman’s behind or BabyPhat was Eminem on Stan. Years later I heard my big fat white supervisor at work say it too in the original way. Seems like it was a Cac word back in the day.
'Phat' became synonymous with 'dope/fresh' in the mid-late 80's. It wasn't until the early 90's that I even heard anyone refer to it in the way it was used in the late-60's/early-70's......

 
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