Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

  • IndiBrony
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    -210 months ago

    Lanuage often changes to reflect useage. Kind of like how ‘literally’ literally has an official dictionary definition nowadays meaning ‘figuratively’.

    If companies use ‘buy’ to mean ‘rent’ or ‘borrow’, then eventually ‘buy’ will come to mean the same as ‘rent’ or ‘borrow’.

    • snooggums
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      10 months ago

      What word will replace buy for ownership instead of it just ending up as meaning two completely different things?

      I am complaining about companies knowingly using words differently than common usage, not the fact that words change over time.

      • netburnr
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        210 months ago

        No word will, buy will be done, you will never own anything in the future, only rent.