Keeping up with language changes

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Okay, I know that the word "drop" recently acquired the sense of "publish" or "announce" but still... Google Freshens Up Its Android Brand and Drops New Features still made me think "Why is Google adding new features and instantly removing them?"

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Maybe in the sense of, “drop a baby.” But I thought that only applied to the giraffe (3′ 6″).

Mike Simmons

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@Campbell: no, it's in the sense of definition 25 (!) here:

Informal. music, software, sneakers, or other highly anticipated consumer products newly released to the public, or the release itself of such an item:
Her latest music video drop created a lot of buzz.
We don’t know for certain why the drop was postponed.

Got to keep up with the young people talk...

@Paul: yeah, this is a particularly backwards-sounding usage.

Campbell Ritchie

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How many definitons did they have? About 35? I like crossword puzzles and part of the skill is remembering that words do have many different meanings.
Well, that giraffe calf did seems to be something new on the plains. But not new in the sense of being different from all that had preceded it.

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They listed 74 definitions, right there in the link I posted. I'm sure the OED has more, of course.

I'm not one to decry neologisms in general. But I think we can all agree that having a word mean the opposite of its original meaning is not a good idea.

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Mike Simmons wrote:. . . is not a good idea.

No, that would be wicked.

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How about "sass"? As in "hoopy frood"

The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.

You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.