• LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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    1 month ago

    In modern language the way language is used and perceived determines its meaning and not its origins.

    So we should start calling monitors computers, desktop towers modems (or CPUs (or hard drives)), wifi as internet, browsers as search engines and search engines as browsers. None of this is incorrect, according to the average person.

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      1 month ago

      Yes, that is how language evolves. Your used of monitor in place of screen is an example of that.