In today’s lesson the writer of the linked post learns that:

• words change meaning over time (consider what ‘hardware’ used to mean vs. what it means now, or ‘systems programming’, or even ‘computer’ for that matter!);
• the same word may be used in different ways in different contexts (e.g. “I put my plane in a bank to land by the river’s bank so I could deposit the money in the bank.”); and
• words are defined by their users and nobody else.

I’m excited to see what other lessons the writer learns in the future!