Re: OT: Re: "Hacker" vs "Cracker" et al.

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On 03/15/2013 06:25 PM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:21:07 -0700
Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does this mean that you just let them adulterate the term?
You would have to re-write current popular culture.
Language and it's use change, by it's very usage.

Language is fickle. Gay used to mean happy-go-lucky;
nuke used to mean to drop an atom bomb on; transistor
still is a three-wire device made (usually) of silicon, used
for amplifiers and switches, but in common usage it means
a radio; nice was once pejorative.  And we used to have
"gotten" and, a little earlier, "shaven" but our verbs are
regularizing themselves whether we like it or not.
So whether you like it or not, hack usually connotes
unlawful intrusion on a computer. Ce la vie!

--doug

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