Smurf, Nerf, Buff, and More Old Words With New Meanings You Should Know
by Stephen Johnson from Lifehacker on (#5QZWZ)
The spread of modern technology has changed nearly everything in our lives-including what even the most common of words mean. Rather than invent a word for each novel thing or concept, our language is flexible enough that we can just borrow old words and tweak their meanings. We don't even need to think about it much!...