• NotAPenguin@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Why do they keep giving the word “streamers” new meanings??

    A streamer is someone who streams, as in Twitch streamers.
    But for some reason they started using it about the streaming services and now it’s also the people using streaming services to watch stuff…?

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      1 year ago

      Did you know that the word “Run” has hundreds of definitions? Like, more then 600 depending on who you ask.

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      Let’s discriminate the term further by calling the producer the “stream source” and the consumers the “stream sink”.

      We now have “sourcers” and “sinkers”. Thank me later. Or don’t.

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      That’s the usage you’re familiar with. But even if it was widely accepted at some point, the meaning can change over time. That’s normal, that’s what languages do. If you complain about shit like that, you sound like my 80 year old father.

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        Right, but part of that process is people thinking some of it is stupid and pushing back. Language isn’t immune to the pressures that form it.

        Likewise, just because you know how something works doesn’t divorce you from the causal forces that bring it into being. The language changes because we change it. It’s okay to try to do it actively.