Comments on: 5 words that don’t mean what they used to mean https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/12/13/5-words-that-dont-mean-what-they-used-to-mean/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Alina Salvat https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/12/13/5-words-that-dont-mean-what-they-used-to-mean/#comment-942533 Alina Salvat Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:41:19 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=8742#comment-942533 Very interesting. A more recent (30+ years) word who’s meaning has a somewhat different meaning today is the word gay.

]]> By: Lalit https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/12/13/5-words-that-dont-mean-what-they-used-to-mean/#comment-941386 Lalit Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:18:13 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=8742#comment-941386 Interesting reading the origin of words and how their meanings and usage changes with time .I find a word mess as a dirty word like what a mess and going for dinner in a mess which is well,organised dining room …thanks

]]> By: Mirjam Kauer https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/12/13/5-words-that-dont-mean-what-they-used-to-mean/#comment-927894 Mirjam Kauer Tue, 07 Feb 2017 00:01:51 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=8742#comment-927894 Doesn’t the word “audition” derive from the Latin word “audere” which means to dare, to risk or to venture something?

]]> By: Sondra Anderson https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/12/13/5-words-that-dont-mean-what-they-used-to-mean/#comment-927890 Sondra Anderson Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:23:11 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=8742#comment-927890 Re: …i.e. in the sense that requires us today to say we are “great”…

Are you implying that we are fat?
Great meant large only a few decades ago.
:)

]]> By: Baldu galima surasti Lietuvai https://blog.ed.ted.com/2016/12/13/5-words-that-dont-mean-what-they-used-to-mean/#comment-926751 Baldu galima surasti Lietuvai Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:28:16 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=8742#comment-926751 Great article. Good idea: “Calling your upper arm your “shorter” is not appreciably odder than calling cut-off pants shorts, after all.”. Anyway, thanks for posting my favorit.

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