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fouc on July 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

TIL. I was quite surprised that sophistication used to mean deceptive/misleading behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistication

thaumasiotes on July 17, 2020 [–]

"Sophistry" still does.

"Silly" is the standard example of semantic shift over what people generally perceive to be a pretty extreme distance: https://www.etymonline.com/word/silly

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