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posadnik 10 year s ago
you forgot the gays.
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rikki_doxx 10 year s ago
Dang posadnik - beat me to it ....
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jan_kowalski 10 year s ago
they have multiple meanings, they did not lose any past meaning
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mdjohansen1 10 year s ago
So people making up names for new things took names of old things and gave them another meaning. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think pretty much every English speaker in the world knows that "window" means that glass-filled hole in the wall as well as the area on a computer screen, and knows that that's not an astonishing coincidence, but that the computer folks copied the word used for the piece of glass. I don't think there's one entry on this list that particularly surprises anyone. Not to be a downer.
At least the spider's web is easier to get out of.
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mdjohansen1 10 year s ago
So people making up names for new things took names of old things and gave them another meaning. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think pretty much every English speaker in the world knows that "window" means that glass-filled hole in the wall as well as the area on a computer screen, and knows that that's not an astonishing coincidence, but that the computer folks copied the word used for the piece of glass. I don't think there's one entry on this list that particularly surprises anyone. Not to be a downer.