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Comment by ihsw2 | Hacker News Reader

That's not how language works. Words and terms have meaning, you can't just make stuff up and say "languages evolve/everything is subjective/use whatever phrase you want whenever you want."

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and then in the same breath state this is "adopting a more precise definition of the term". These comments are like arguing with my six year old.

When it's a phrase with no inherent concrete meaning, yes you can.

> a phrase with no inherent concrete meaning

All words and phrases are made up. None of them have an “inherent concrete meaning”. Commonly-accepted deifnitions today may have been entirely foreign a few decades ago.

Words and phrases can have a de facto inherent meaning when they are in a language shared by the speaker and listener (including a shared knowledge domain).

When in spite of this shared language/domain situation, a phrase is gobbledygook, it is fair to say it has "no inherent concrete meaning".

Exactly. It's not like the author is saying, "The cat is on the red table."

Yes, so the author is free to talk about 'toxic culture' as inflexible management and that makes sense to me.

So if you think all these things, why do you feel a need to convince us we're wrong? I mean, does your blarf just not embiggen the point yule's trying to make? I mean, depending on what you might think I instoll with a breem like 'your blarf'.

I do agree that it all glarps like slofting ar a six year old.

ok.

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