Semantic Diffusion: popular terms tend to dilute and lose their meaning.
- Semantic Diffusion[sv]: popular terms tend to dilute and lose their meaning.
- This was described by Martin Fowler.
- Every time that someone uses a term, there's some non-zero chance they use it "wrong" or imprecisely.
- That means the more people who are using it, the more likely that the term regresses to the mean.
- Sliding from its original distinctive meaning to something more generic.
- The more popular the term is, the faster the game of telephone goes and the faster it happens.