Recently I have noticed that some words have peculiar meanings. Actually there's nothing new in that, but the word "free" used to seem quite straightforward. Languages often change as results of abuses of the language, and that might be going on, but it might also be that some people have trouble understanding what "free" means. I don't recall the exact mater that got me interested, because there are many things for which no direct payment is taken, and some people erroneously ...
Updated 02-01-2016 at 10:05 PM by PeterL
It has come to our attention that most people do not know what art is. In its broadest sense art is anything that is not natural, but many people seem to think that only the fine arts are art; all else is something else. That use of the word “art” is less than two and a half centuries old. Just reading the etymology tells most of the story. From Online Etymological Dictionary art (n.) early 13c., "skill as a result of learning or practice," from ...
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