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"We use words like 'enormity', for instance; people use it to mean 'big' – well, it doesn't.
Proponents of the term use it to mean an act of cultural vandalism.
They often use it to mean, it is no big thing.
Let's not use it to mean "interesting fact" or "something you didn't know".
Americans use it to mean preventing another Nazi Holocaust -- no appeasement, no looking the other way at genocide.
"Loner" is not a tightly defined word, but most people use it to mean not needing others.
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He derived it from the Greek word autós (αὐτός, meaning "self"), and used it to mean morbid self-admiration, referring to "autistic withdrawal of the patient to his fantasies, against which any influence from outside becomes an intolerable disturbance".
Even as the mainstream usage of "hacker" took on its darker connotation, the geeks continued using it to mean what it always had: a righteous dude.
Its coiner, the psychiatrist Klaus Conrad, used it to mean the unmotivated perception of connections between entities or data, or what he neatly called "abnormal meaningfulness".
The ancient Indian law texts, the Dharma Sutras used it to mean "conversation," "discussion," or "dialogue," which are the word's more common meanings.
They used it to mean "messing about with machines".
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