Yeah, but where does the definition comes from? It doesn’t get dictated by someone it develops and changes over time. So while it is important to know the origins and history of how a word came to be it is also important to recognize how people are using it today which may be different by community or context.
You know it is completely fine if you state your opinion what a certain word means for you. But your chosen definition is never particularly special in that it for example would be the original definition, which would be understandable, or the currently broadly used definition most would agree… No, you pick one which makes most of the time only really sense in your head and then completely obsess about it for hundreds of posts and wonder why no one agrees with you.
I played thousand plus hours of WC3 multiplay, Dota mod through many versions, and Battleship mod as a niche that never really caught on. Also Tower defence, survival, and marine mods.
Yes and no. Over long time spans can words change. But you’re using books as an argument and you talk of 100-200 years. Yet the word “gank” or “ganking” doesn’t even show up in today’s Webster’s Dictionary or the Cambridge Dictionary. Only the Oxford Dictionary has the following to say:
The word simply doesn’t have a solid definition for it to have changed over time, that’s how new it is.
