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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'll do you one better.

Not only is the language itself evolving, but we acquire more and more idioms and jargon as society moves through the industrial age. Right now, english has this playful mishmash of nautical, railroad, and now computing idioms reflecting each technological epoch's mark on speech over the last 200+ years.