I have tried my best to keep up with the language. Truly. I gave up my pedantic obsession with the meaning of “ironic”, “literal”, and many many others. But try though I might I cannot stop myself from flinching every time someone uses “exponential” to mean “big”
@mattodon@jburnmurdoch No it’s definitely not from his original writing! It’s from a piece discussing the possible explanations for the trend. The article is actually very good (which is why I didn’t want to link to it and cast data nerd aspersions at the author) and worth a read
@djnavarro you've seen the bit from "The Newsroom" where Jane Fonda's character points out that there is literally no word in English any longer that means "literally"?
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