But the word “destiny” is not currently subject to change.
Words change due to society using them in a different context. A very large group of people has to constantly use that word in a different context and/or connotation for a word to change its meaning.
That is not the case with “destiny”. “Destiny” is not being redefined by society. It’s being redefined by you. And that’s not enough to change the universal meaning of a word.
@The_Mungoman
Here’s an example of how words change. Back then, “bully” meant awesome. Today it refers to a coward who gets his kicks out of putting people down.
@Background Pony
I can see you just enjoy being insulting, so continuing this is just for fun.
The color of the sky is azure, for your information.
“Gay” now means homosexual, despite having no such original meaning.
“Fag” Has been used to mean MANY other things, a bundle of sticks even. Yet now, again, it used to refer to homosexuals.
enthusiasm – [thanks masseylinguists] a borrowing into English from Greek, it is first attested in 1603 with the meaning “possession by a god, supernatural inspiration”. This inspirational meaning lost prominence when gods stopped possessing people quite so often, and after a dalliance as “misdirected religious emotion”, enthusiasm settled with its current meaning, “passionate eagerness in any pursuit”. The OED marks the original meaning as obsolete, its second meaning as archaic, and the third as the “principal current sense”.
Dictionaries tell us what words mean. Those meanings are determined through discussion of scholars and scientists who know a lot about language. Just because the word “floop” describes a table for you, does not mean that the universal word for table is “floop”.
@Background Pony
Words change meaning in time. That’s what he’s trying to say. Words can change in meaning, they can mean one thing in one point of time and then change in another.
