on one of the first premium episodes they said sam refused to go on because he doesnt do well on his feet which is false so i think he just doesnt like doing podcasts <| sep |> the beatles have made hundreds of millions of dollars . they ' ve lived and breathed the same capitalism the corporations are . no harm done ? it might be the antiestablishment sentiment , and maybe it ' s sad to a profoundly impactful set of artists become a logo like McDonalds . <| sep |> That ' s quite true , and I ' m not making an argument against synonyms , in general . Also , the examples you cited each has its own nuance of meaning , it ' s own cultural context , and a pretty short shelf life . A better example would be quantum , which has taken on a new meaning that is confusingly almost the opposite of its original meaning , a new meaning for which there are already plenty of existing words . That ' s linguistic change that resulted not from some cultural development that needed expressing , or some new idea that needed a term , or any real purpose at all . It was just ignorance and pomposity combining to make the language uglier . Why would anyone not rail against that ?