The #PodosLab has a saying: Whatever happens in waders stays in waders.*
*unless you have a hole, then you need to dump that sh$$ out.
#TailsFromTheSwamp#fieldworkfail
Everyone's study species #birds have been nesting already, but my swamp sparrows are a bit slower to the game. The first nesting-material-carry sighting was just this morning. Here we go! #fieldwork
I hear its mothers day. Did your mother brood you & your several dozen siblings in the moist darkness for days on end? Fastidiously picking off fungal spores & protecting you all from marauding micro predators? Probably not, unless you are a centipede. #MothersDay
@RichardDawkins Ok but that natural evolution of a word undergoes all kinds of pressures, often times by law or social bullying. I understand the concern over losing useful words to what seem to be unreasonable means, but I imagine that many of our words have been shapped that way
Existing words change meaning by gradual evolution. Or a redefinition or refinement is proposed & voluntarily adopted. Fine.
Not fine is when a word with a long-established common usage is bossily redefined, & adoption of the new meaning imposed by law or social bullying.