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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
 My favourite is "nice", which originally meant "blunt," ( "not cutting" in Latin) hence by extension "ignorant, dull". Whenever prescriptivists rant against polysemy or insist that a word can only mean what it once did (e.g., decimate, enormity, etc) I just smile and say "that's nice"  |
So then, I guess that it is nice that language evolution so often makes it more difficult to make distinctions.