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"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." -Henry David Thoreau

Words will never be the same
Forever, and Forever, and Forever. . .
Thursday, September 09, 2004 :: 1540.17 EDT

Some words for me will never have the same meaning as they once did. Example:

np.
Usually laypeople think np means 'no problem,' but after being exposed to the wonders of computer science theory, np can never be the np I remember.

searching.
I have a 'Searching' drop down on my bookmarks bar, but now 'Searching' is disanalogous [yes, new word] with simple web searching.

The actual definitions are forever etched in my soul:

np.
nondeterministic polynomial time.

searching.
the act of traversing a graph to find a solution.